Powering American farms: the overlooked origins of rural electrification/ Richard F. Hirsh.

Hirsh  Richard F.,

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dc.contributor.author	Hirsh Richard F.,
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-29T23:36:36Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-29T23:36:36Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.citation	Hirsh. Powering American farms: the overlooked origins of rural electrification - 1 online resource - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/3121953.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn	9781421443638
dc.identifier.isbn	1421443635
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/182510
dc.description	Includes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstract	"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"--
dc.description.tableofcontents	The Standard Narrative and Its Defects -- Unattractive Economics in the Rural Electricity Market -- Business Attitudes toward Farmers in the 1920s -- The Lure and Lore of Rural Electrification -- Farmers on Their Own -- The Awakening of Power Company Interest in Rural Electrification -- Industry Concerns and the Unexpected Public Relations Value of Rural Electrification -- The Industry Organizes: Establishment of the CREA -- State Committees and Resolving Uncertainties -- Regulation and the Extension of Lines to Rural Areas -- Building Greater Momentum in the Rural Electrification Subsystem -- Government Innovations in the Rural Electrification Subsystem -- Competition and Private Utilities in the REA Era.
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject.other	Rural electrification -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
dc.subject.other	Electric utilities -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
dc.subject.other	Farmers -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.title	Powering American farms: the overlooked origins of rural electrification/ Richard F. Hirsh.
dc.type	Book
dc.description.pages	1 online resource
dc.collection	Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id	EN05CEBSCO05C4712