Powering American Farms
Author | : Richard F. Hirsh |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781421443621 |
ISBN-13 | : 1421443627 |
Rating | : 4/5 (627 Downloads) |
Download or read book Powering American Farms written by Richard F. Hirsh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--