AuthorKline, Ronald R.
TitleConsumers in the country : technology and social change in rural America / Ronald R. Kline.
PublishedBaltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.
Descriptionxii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
SeriesRevisiting rural America
ISBN0-8018-6248-5 (alk. paper)
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted NoteContents: (Re)inventing the telephone -- Taming the devil wagon -- Defining modernity in the home -- Tuning in the country -- Creating the REA -- Struggling for local autonomy -- Lights in the country -- Completing the job -- (Re)forming rural life.
SubjectsCountry life -- United States.
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
LC Card Number99-45676
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: T 14.5 K65
mq225499: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
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