Powering American Farms - The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification

"Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and early 1930s that enabled growing numbers of farmers to obtain electrical service, well before the creation of Depression-era government programs"--

About the author

Richard F. Hirsh (BLACKSBURG, VA) is a professor of history at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Glimpsing an Invisible Universe: The Emergence of X-ray Astronomy; Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry; and Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System.

Product details

• Authors: Richard F. Hirsh, Hirsh Richard F.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781421443621
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4362-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electrical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Electrical Engineering, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas