LEADER 03559nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910455594103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-54195-1 010 $a9786612541957 010 $a0-262-28085-X 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006505 035 $a(OCoLC)593295754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10367818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344444 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11260144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344444 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308350 035 $a(PQKB)11239076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339113 035 $a(OCoLC)593295754$z(OCoLC)647882154$z(OCoLC)961505160$z(OCoLC)962654909$z(OCoLC)988467324$z(OCoLC)992093992$z(OCoLC)1037922228$z(OCoLC)1038641105$z(OCoLC)1045530766$z(OCoLC)1058012145$z(OCoLC)1065680812$z(OCoLC)1081292234$z(OCoLC)1097304193 035 $a(OCoLC-P)593295754 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8252 035 $a(PPN)224079352 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367818 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL254195 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006505 100 $a20090626d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen the lights went out$b[electronic resource] $ea history of blackouts in America /$fDavid E. Nye 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-52507-0 311 $a0-262-01374-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aWhere were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye views power outages in America from 1935 to the present not simply as technical failures but variously as military tactic, social disruption, crisis in the networked city, outcome of political and economic decisions, sudden encounter with sublimity and memories enshrined in photographs. Our electrically lit-up life is so natural to us that when the lights go off, the darkness seems abnormal. Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible and a series of blackouts from military blackouts to the "greenout" (exemplified by the new tradition of "Earth Hour"), a voluntary reduction organized by environmental organizations. Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition -- not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly binds itself together with electrical wires and signals. 606 $aElectric power failures$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aElectrification$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aElectrification$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aElectric power failures$xHistory. 615 0$aElectrification$xHistory. 615 0$aElectrification$xSocial aspects 676 $a333.793/20973 700 $aNye$b David E.$f1946-$0140346 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455594103321 996 $aWhen the lights went out$92063871 997 $aUNINA