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Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938–2007
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 549–550.
Published: 01 October 2009
.... RichardF.Hirsh VirginiTa ech 550 © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 Rural Wonder: A History of Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, 1938-2007 . Jim McCarty . ...
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The Rise and Decline of the Kerosene Kitchen: A Neglected Energy Transition in Rural America, 1870–1950
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 2020
... women says little about this important energy transition before electricity and gas. For rural and farm households, where the alternative was coal or wood, oil offered significant benefits, and to farm women especially it was a godsend. Oil was cleaner, quicker, cooler, lighter, and more portable...
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Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
Published: 01 July 2017
... inexpensive electric power while also providing adequate flood relief, year-round irrigation for the dry southern coast, and abundant reserves of clean drinking water. As with other PRRA projects, all property, constructions, and lands of the rural electrification program were transferred to the local...
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“Women Work Particularly Well in Community Organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women's Club, 1939–1940
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Victoria Plutshack; Ashton Merck Abstract From 1939 to 1941, the US Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the Electric Farm Equipment Show. A key part of the show was a series of appliance...
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Shedding New Light on Rural Electrification: The Neglected Story of Successful Efforts to Power Up Farms in the 1920s and 1930s
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 296–327.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Richard Hirsh Abstract Traditional histories of rural electrification glorify New Deal efforts to bring electricity to farmers, enabling them to enjoy modern amenities equal to those of their urban counterparts. Though not disparaging the fruitful work performed by government agencies in the 1930s...
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"How Not to Electrocute the Farmer": Assessing Attitudes Towards Electrification on American Farms, 1920–1940
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 515–529.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Audra J. Wolfe "How Not to Electrocute Assessing Attitudes Farms, 1920-1940 Towards the Farmer": Electrification on American AUDRA J. WOLFE When asked how electrification of her home changed her life, Mrs. Fredda Davis responded, "The coming of electricity made the housewife's chores lighter...
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In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and gender” (6). The cover of In a New Light features a woman's hand reaching to pull the chain of an electric light fixture, and the generation and use of household electricity figures prominently in the volume. Following Ruth W. Sandwell's opening essay, in which she analyzes the relative absence...
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Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 532–533.
Published: 01 October 2001
... reformers, businessmen and manufacturers, and government agencies that promoted the new technologies. Part One, "Urban Technology and Rural Reform," deals with the early history of the four most important modernizing technologies: the telephone, the automobile, electricity, and the radio. In each case...
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Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 February 2024
... upends the traditional narrative that rural America, long neglected by utility companies, received electricity as a result of the New Deal. Convincing and intriguing, his revisionist history and his claim that the true story of rural electrification was a victim of New Deal propaganda are both supported...
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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 533–535.
Published: 01 October 2001
..." (154). While the REA actively promoted new uses for electricity on the farm, country people did not buy into a middle-class lifestyle. Rather, they favored lights over electrical appliances, and used the latter sparingly or in ways that fit the rhythms of the farm household. Outside of the South, many...
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The Coal-Oil Lamp
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 190–209.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Gooday , Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914 ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2008 ). This article draws from my research into the history of energy in the home, as cited throughout, including R. W. Sandwell , “Pedagogies of the Unimpressed: Re-Educating...
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Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 137–138.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... Glaser does not promise a sweeping history of western electrical development (in spite of the title) but rather focuses her attention on three separate communities in Arizona, all with a significant native population. It is not an environmental or policy history, or a history of technology, but as Glaser...
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The Benefits and Costs of the Columbia Basin Project: Earlier Perspectives and Changing Perceptions
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 463–480.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Printer, 1922 ), 23 . 14 F. Kochis, engineer, "Market for Electric Power in the Pacific Northwest," 6 December 1934, Cage 2049 F. Kochis Papers, 1927–1934 15 Pitzer, Grand Coulee, 53. 16 Pitzer, "Visions, Plans, and Realities," 27–28 17 Kerry E.
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The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 January 2011
...-1930s reveals divisions of class, ethnicity, and urban/rural populations, complicated by the preoccupation of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) with domestic service over irrigation needs. It took until 1940 for electricity to finally arrive but it did so on residents own terms to become...
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The Best Years of Their Lives? Wives and Mothers on Western Homesteads in the Postwar Years
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 451–464.
Published: 01 April 2000
... History Despite coats of wallpaper or paint, even many of the more permanent homes built by homesteaders were fairly primitive, lacking such amenities as electricity and indoor plumbing and heated by wood or coal burning stoves. Women such as Mary Blackburn who had already lived in homes without...
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Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 837–838.
Published: 01 October 2000
... points out that these treat? ments were an "integral part of mainstream medical practice" (p. 27), used by lay healers and physicians alike. I was fascinated to learn that electric shock was also in wide use by lay healers and physicians by the turn of the eighteenth century. Healers used various...
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Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 October 2000
... part of mainstream medical practice" (p. 27), used by lay healers and physicians alike. I was fascinated to learn that electric shock was also in wide use by lay healers and physicians by the turn of the eighteenth century. Healers used various machines to treat a variety of ailments with electric...
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Selling Safety: The Farm Safety Movement’s Emergence and Evolution from 1940–1975
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 412–438.
Published: 01 October 2005
..../Feb. 1952 ): 6 G. E.
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, "Explaining Electrical Safety," Farm Safety Review (Nov./Dec. 1952 ): 4 ,5 25 Transactions—National Safety Congress (Chicago: National Safety Council, 1953 ), 15
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Let's Talk about Momentum
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 267–270.
Published: 01 May 2022
... into motion, and that has been a loaded word in historical circles since Thomas P. Hughes introduced it into the history of technology. Hughes invoked momentum in his study of electric power networks, arguing that once networks reached a certain size, they were driven not just by the decisions of humans...
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The Steel Wheel: From Progress to Protest and Back Again in Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 172–189.
Published: 01 April 2018
... nighttime fieldwork or driving, tractors were also not to have electric lights. 17. Peter Knelsen , interview with Karen Warkentin, Colonia Manitoba, Bolivia, July 2009 , copy held by Royden Loewen . 18. Cornelius Berg , interview with Kerry Fast, Colonia Riva Palacio, Bolivia, July...
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