Hirsh, Richard F (85 results)
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Seller: Greenworld Books, arlington, TX, U.S.A.Greenworld Books
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Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.
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Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipp…ed with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
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Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and London, 1989
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean, crisp hardcover in very good condition; faintly mottled fore and upper edge. Very good DJ with creased edges and flaps.
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Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In jacket over black cloth with silver titling, 8vo, 274ppp. Internet pioneer Robert Kahn's copy - Signed and Inscribed By Author on free-front endpaper: "To Robert Kahn, with best wishes - Richard Hirsh - 11/3/93". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Sign…ed and Inscribed By Author. Book.
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Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
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Hardcover. Condition: ex library-good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiv, 274 p. 24 cm. 32 figures. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Ex library with labels on jacket spine and rear endpapers, ink stamps to text block edges, front pastedown, and title. Jacket taped to book.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This book illuminates the role of technological stagnation in the decline of the American electric utility industry in the late 1960s and 1970s. Unlike other interpreters of the industry's woes, Professor Hirsh argues that a long and successful history of managin…g a conventional technology set the stage for the industry's deterioration. Partly as a result of this lack of attention to technological issues, the industry found itself in the 1980s challenged by the prospects of deregulation and restructuring.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 274 pages, index.
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Seller: Colewood Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Colewood Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Cambridge University Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1989. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is VG, w/ light edge/shelf wear. Presentation copy, signed, inscribed & dated by author on ffep. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Rarewaves.com USA, London, LONDO, United KingdomRarewaves.com USA
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Hardback. Condition: New. The untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs.Winner of the 2025 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering HistoryEven after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrificat…ion in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government established the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The agencies' success in raising the standard of living for millions of Americans contrasted with the failure of the greedy big-city utility companies, which showed little interest in the apparently unprofitable nonurban market. Traditional accounts often describe the nation's population as split in two, separated by access to a magical form of energy: just past cities' limits, a bleak, preindustrial class of citizens endured, literally in near darkness at night and envious of their urban cousins, who enjoyed electrically operated lights, refrigerators, radios, and labor-saving appliances.In Powering American Farms, Richard F. Hirsh challenges the notion that electric utilities neglected rural customers in the years before government intervention. Drawing on previously unexamined resources, Hirsh demonstrates that power firms quadrupled the number of farms obtaining electricity in the years between 1923 and 1933, for example. Though not all corporate managers thought much of the farm business, a cadre of rural electrification advocates established the knowledge base and social infrastructure upon which New Deal organizations later capitalized. The book also suggests that the conventional storyline of rural electrification remains popular because it contains a colorful hero, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and villainous utility magnates, such as Samuel Insull, who make for an engaging-but distorted-narrative.Hirsh describes the evolution of power company managers' thinking in the 1920s and early 1930s-from believing that rural electrification made no economic sense to realizing that serving farmers could mitigate industry-wide problems. This transformation occurred as agricultural engineers in land-grant universities, supported by utilities, demonstrated productive electrical technologies that yielded healthy profits to farmers and companies alike. Gaining confidence in the value of rural electrification, private firms strung wires to more farms than did the REA until 1950, a fact conveniently omitted in conventional accounts. Powering American Farms will interest academic and lay readers of New Deal history, the history of technology, and revisionist historiography.
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.World of Books (was SecondSale)
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0521364787.
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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2022
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs.Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks…and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government established the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The agencies' success in raising the standard of living for millions of Americans contrasted with the failure of the greedy big-city utility companies, which showed little interest in the apparently unprofitable nonurban market. Traditional accounts often describe the nation's population as split in two, separated by access to a magical form of energy: just past cities' limits, a bleak, preindustrial class of citizens endured, literally in near darkness at night and envious of their urban cousins, who enjoyed electrically operated lights, refrigerators, radios, and labor-saving appliances.In Powering American Farms, Richard F. Hirsh challenges the notion that electric utilities neglected rural customers in the years before government intervention. Drawing on previously unexamined resources, Hirsh demonstrates that power firms quadrupled the number of farms obtaining electricity in the years between 1923 and 1933, for example. Though not all corporate managers thought much of the farm business, a cadre of rural electrification advocates established the knowledge base and social infrastructure upon which New Deal organizations later capitalized. The book also suggests that the conventional storyline of rural electrification remains popular because it contains a colorful hero, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and villainous utility magnates, such as Samuel Insull, who make for an engagingbut distortednarrative.Hirsh describes the evolution of power company managers' thinking in the 1920s and early 1930sfrom believing that rural electrification made no economic sense to realizing that serving farmers could mitigate industry-wide problems. This transformation occurred as agricultural engineers in land-grant universities, supported by utilities, demonstrated productive electrical technologies that yielded healthy profits to farmers and companies alike. Gaining confidence in the value of rural electrification, private firms strung wires to more farms than did the REA until 1950, a fact conveniently omitted in conventional accounts. Powering American Farms will interest academic and lay readers of New Deal history, the history of technology, and revisionist historiography. Powering American Farms will interest academic and lay readers of New Deal history, the history of technology, and revisionist historiography. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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