Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America

(Part of the Revisiting Rural America Series)

by Ronald R. Kline

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801862485

ISBN13:9780801862489

Release Date:April 2000

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Americas Engineering History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Technology

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