| Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kline, Ronald R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801862485 ISBN-13: 9780801862489 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $53.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Rural - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 99045676 |
| Series: Revisiting Rural America |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.33" W x 9.35" (1.42 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kline, Ronald R.: - Ronald R. Kline is a professor of history of technology at Cornell University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
