"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"--
Author | Richard F. Hirsh |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Release Date | 2022-06-14 |
ISBN | 1421443627 |
Pages | 377 pages |
Rating | 4/5 (21 users) |