Powering American Farms

Powering American Farms
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781421443621
ISBN-13 : 1421443627
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Book Synopsis Powering American Farms by : Richard F. Hirsh

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"--


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