Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Revised)

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Price
$62.10
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publish Date
Pages
488
Dimensions
8.32 X 10.05 X 1.39 inches | 2.43 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780801846144

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About the Author

Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer.

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An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of . . . power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society.

-- "American Historical Review"

How the West was wired.

-- "Times Literary Supplement"