Author: Deward Clayton Brown
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Electricity for Rural America
Author: Deward Clayton Brown
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Electrifying the Rural American West
Author: Leah S. Glaser
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080322219X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era?s most prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies controlled power production, electrical transmission, and distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not ?economically feasible? for many ethnic and rural communities to access ?the grid.? Yet, government agents continued to advocate electrical living through federal programs that reached into and across farming communities and American Indian reservations to homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process, subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters. ΓΈ Electrifying the Rural American West provides a social and cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As today?s policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool to bring democracy to faraway places and ?smart grids? to deliver renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical relationship of Americans with electronic power production, distribution, and regulation.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080322219X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era?s most prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies controlled power production, electrical transmission, and distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not ?economically feasible? for many ethnic and rural communities to access ?the grid.? Yet, government agents continued to advocate electrical living through federal programs that reached into and across farming communities and American Indian reservations to homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process, subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters. ΓΈ Electrifying the Rural American West provides a social and cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As today?s policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool to bring democracy to faraway places and ?smart grids? to deliver renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical relationship of Americans with electronic power production, distribution, and regulation.
Electricity Comes to Rural America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Next Greatest Thing
Author: Richard A. Pence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"50 years of rural electrification in America"--Jacket subtitle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"50 years of rural electrification in America"--Jacket subtitle.
Electricity Comes to Rural America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Electricity Comes to Rural America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Selling Power
Author: John L. Neufeld
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639963X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"--Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639963X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"--Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940
Rural Lines
Author: United States. Rural Electrification Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Rural Electrification News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Rural Cooperatives in the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description