Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America
(Part of the Revisiting Rural America Series)
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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 of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801871158
ISBN13:9780801871153
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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