Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America

by Ronald R. Kline

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862485
• ISBN13: 9780801862489
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher