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Author:   Jay Brigham
Publisher:   University Press of Kansas
Imprint:   University Press of Kansas
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780700609208

ISBN 10:   0700609202
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on technology and politics in the twentieth-century United States. Brigham's argument about the importance of the political construction of technology is valuable. --<b>Carl Abbot</b>, author of <i>The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West</i> This is an important book that will change the way environmental historians and western historians regard the role of electrical power in the development of the West. --<b>Hal K. Rothman</b>, editor of <i>Environmental History</i>

This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on technology and politics in the twentieth-century United States. Brigham's argument about the importance of the political construction of technology is valuable.--Carl Abbot, author of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American WestThis is an important book that will change the way environmental historians and western historians regard the role of electrical power in the development of the West.--Hal K. Rothman, editor of Environmental History This study effectively and shrewdly compares politically and environmentally diverse western cities as Seattle and Los Angeles.--ChoiceWestern historians should find Brigham's analysis of the importance of electrical politics useful.--Western Historical Quarterly Overall, this book significantly extends our understanding of electrification. . . . Brigham expands the story, bringing the state back in, probing the roles played by politicians and pressure groups, and reminding us that debates regarding governmental roles were central to the process of electrification in the 1920s.--American Historical Review The need for strong, historically reasoned analysis of [deregulation of the electrical utility industry] issue is sorely needed, and Empowering the West is a good start that will serve historians and legislators well.--Agricultural History Brigham has rendered an important service indicating the widespread support for government's playing a major role in seeking electrical modernization through a public power generated in dams on the Tennessee and Colorado rivers.--Pacific Historical Review For a short, concise analysis of the politics of electricity in the 1920s, Brigham does a good job of telling us his story and why it matters to historians.--Journal of Arizona History

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Jay Brigham is a research associate with Morgan, Angel and Associates, public policy consultants in Washington, D.C.

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