Daniel L. Wuebben

Power-Lined (eBook, PDF)

Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496215987
• Artikelnr.: 72451664

Autorenporträt

Daniel L. Wuebben is an assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is a faculty member of the Office of Latino and Latin American Studies as well as the faculty organizer for the Nebraska Post-Secondary Prison Education Project.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Preface: Playing Power Lines    
Introduction: Power-Lined Landscapes    
1. Wires in the Garden, 1844–1882    
2. New York’s Frontier Lines and Telegraph Forests, 1882–1916     
3. California’s Wood Poles, Steel Towers, and Modernist Pylons, 1907–1972
    
4. Public Perceptions and Power Line Battles, 1935–2013    
Conclusion: The Future of the Power-Lined Landscape    
Acknowledgments    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index