Domesticating Electricity

Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914

Graeme Gooday (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2018
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-6529-9 (ISBN)

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

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.

Graeme Gooday is professor of the history of science and technology, in the School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony and Trust in Late Victorian Elect

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8229-6529-1 / 0822965291
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-6529-9 / 9780822965299
Zustand	Neuware