Networks of Power by Thomas Parker Hughes
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of.. power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society. American Historical Review How the West was wired. Times Literary Supplement
Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801846144 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801846145 |
| Title | Networks of Power |
| Author | Thomas Parker Hughes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1993-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 488 |
| Prizes | Winner of Dexter Prize for an Outstanding Book on the History of Technology 1984 (United States) |
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