Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America - Couverture rigide

Kline, Ronald R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801862485 ISBN 13 : 9780801862489

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies-the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power-transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly-and with what levels of resistance and acceptance-did this change take place? In Consumers in the Country Ronald R. Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ronald R. Kline is the Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University. He is the author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist and Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801862485
• ISBN 13: 9780801862489
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
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