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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136185003321

Autore

Beltran Alain

Titolo

Electric worlds : creations, circulations, tensions, transitions (19-21 C.) / / Alain Beltran [and three others] (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017

Bruxelles, [Belgium] : , : P.I.E. Peter Lang, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

2-8076-0029-8

3-0352-6605-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (608 pages)

Collana

History of Energy, , 2033-7469 ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

371.3344678

Soggetti

Education - Computer network resources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

<P>What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the historiography in both its themes and its approaches. Four questions about the passage to the electrical age are raised: which innovations or combination of innovations made this passage a reality? According to which networks and appropriation? Evolving thanks to which tensions and alliances? And resulting in which transition and accumulation?</P>
<P>Quel(s) regard(s) les historiens d’aujourd’hui portent-ils sur l’électrification, processus engagé il y a près de cent cinquante ans mais auquel plus d’un milliard d’hommes et de femmes restent encore étrangers ? Le présent volume rend compte de la diversité des mondes sociaux électriques et des manières d’enquêter sur leur histoire. Il actualise les connaissances et témoigne du renouvellement de l’historiographie, dans ses objets et ses approches. Quatre points d’interrogation sur le basculement des sociétés dans l’âge électrique



jalonnent le volume : moyennant quelles créations ou combinaisons créatrices ? En vertu de quelles circulations et appropriations ? Selon quelles tensions et alliances ? Et produisant quelles transitions et accumulations ?</P>