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Powering American Farms
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Author : Richard F. Hirsh
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Powering American Farms written by Richard F. Hirsh and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
"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"--
Powering American Farms
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Author : Richard F. Hirsh
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Powering American Farms written by Richard F. Hirsh and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs. Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government established the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The agencies' success in raising the standard of living for millions of Americans contrasted with the failure of the greedy big-city utility companies, which showed little interest in the apparently unprofitable nonurban market. Traditional accounts often describe the nation's population as split in two, separated by access to a magical form of energy: just past cities' limits, a bleak, preindustrial class of citizens endured, literally in near darkness at night and envious of their urban cousins, who enjoyed electrically operated lights, refrigerators, radios, and labor-saving appliances. In Powering American Farms, Richard F. Hirsh challenges the notion that electric utilities neglected rural customers in the years before government intervention. Drawing on previously unexamined resources, Hirsh demonstrates that power firms quadrupled the number of farms obtaining electricity in the years between 1923 and 1933, for example. Though not all corporate managers thought much of the farm business, a cadre of rural electrification advocates established the knowledge base and social infrastructure upon which New Deal organizations later capitalized. The book also suggests that the conventional storyline of rural electrification remains popular because it contains a colorful hero, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and villainous utility magnates, such as Samuel Insull, who make for an engaging—but distorted—narrative. Hirsh describes the evolution of power company managers' thinking in the 1920s and early 1930s—from believing that rural electrification made no economic sense to realizing that serving farmers could mitigate industry-wide problems. This transformation occurred as agricultural engineers in land-grant universities, supported by utilities, demonstrated productive electrical technologies that yielded healthy profits to farmers and companies alike. Gaining confidence in the value of rural electrification, private firms strung wires to more farms than did the REA until 1950, a fact conveniently omitted in conventional accounts. Powering American Farms will interest academic and lay readers of New Deal history, the history of technology, and revisionist historiography.
New American Farm Book
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Author : Richard Lamb Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
New American Farm Book written by Richard Lamb Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Agriculture categories.
New American Farm Book
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Author : R. L. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
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New American Farm Book
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Author : Richard Lamb Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
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The American Farm Book Or Compend Of American Agriculture
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Author : Richard Lamb Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The American Farm Book Or Compend Of American Agriculture written by Richard Lamb Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Agriculture categories.
New American Farm Book
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Author : Richard Lamb Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
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American Farms Their Condition And Future
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Author : Elliott J.R
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
American Farms Their Condition And Future written by Elliott J.R and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
New American Farm Book
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Author : Richard Lamb Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
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The American Farm Book
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language : en
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Release Date : 1856
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