Author: United States. Rural Electrification Administration
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Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rural Telephone Service USA
Author: United States. Rural Electrification Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Rural electrification
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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America Calling
Author: Claude S. Fischer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520915003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
National Agricultural Library Catalog
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2834
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2834
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Advising People about Cooperatives
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Progress
Author:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Red Polled Journal
Author:
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Category : Red-polled cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Category : Red-polled cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Bell Telephone Quarterly
Author:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Program Aid
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1985
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
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