Domesticating Electricity : Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914

Name: Domesticating Electricity
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
SKU: 9780822965299
Price: 8800 KES
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ISBN: 9780822965299

by Graeme Gooday

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-10 0822965291

ISBN-13 9780822965299

Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 5th, 2018

Print length 302 Pages

Product Classification: History of science Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism

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This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. 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.

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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