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Item Details
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DOMESTICATING ELECTRICITY
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY AND GENDER, 1880-1914 |
By: |
Graeme Gooday |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£46.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0822944820 |
ISBN 13: |
9780822944829 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 2008 |
Series: |
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
This is 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. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity. |
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US |
Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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