Domesticating Electricity

Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914

Graeme Gooday (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2008
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85196-975-3 (ISBN)

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Offers an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.

Introduction 1 Understanding the Domestication of Electricity 2 The Uncertain Identity of Electricity 3 Electricity as Danger 4 Electricity as Safety 5 Electricity as the Future 6 Aestheticizing Electricity 7 Personifying Electricity Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2008
Reihe/Serie	Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-85196-975-6 / 1851969756
ISBN-13	978-1-85196-975-3 / 9781851969753
Zustand	Neuware