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Electrifying the Rural American West - Stories of Power, People, and Place (Hardcover)
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Electrifying the Rural American West - Stories of Power, People, and Place (Hardcover)
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Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but
the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges
notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the
beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and
poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era's most
prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies
controlled power production, electrical transmission, and
distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not
"economically feasible" for many ethnic and rural communities to
access "the grid." Yet, government agents continued to advocate
electrical living through federal programs that reached into and
across farming communities and American Indian reservations to
homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the
end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process,
subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters.
"Electrifying the Rural American West" provides a social and
cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three
case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined
from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates
the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in
the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As
today's policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool
to bring democracy to faraway places and "smart grids" to deliver
renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical
relationship of Americans with electronic power production,
distribution, and regulation.
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