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Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
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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
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0801828732
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- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages488
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