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The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
title
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Consuming Power : A Social History of American Energies
author
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Nye, David E.
publisher
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MIT Press
isbn10 | asin
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0262140632
print isbn13
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9780262140638
ebook isbn13
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9780585002903
language
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English
subject
Power resources--Social aspects--United States, Energy consumption--Social aspects--United States.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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HD9502.U52N94 1998eb
ddc
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333.79/0973
subject
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Power resources--Social aspects--United States, Energy consumption--Social aspects--United States.
1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any from by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
Set in Sabon by The MIT Press. Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nye, David E., 1946 Consuming power: a social history of American energies / David E. Nye. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-262-14063-2 (alk. paper) 1. Power resourcesSocial aspectsUnited States. 2. Energy consumptionSocial aspects United States. I. Title. HD9502.U52N94 1997 333.79'0973dc21 97-24832 CIP
for Todd Nemanic and Peter Feniak
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Expansion
1 The Energies of Conquest
15
2 Water and Industry
43
Concentration
3 Cities of Steam
71
4 Power Incorporated
103
5 Industrial Systems
131
Dispersion
6 Consumption and Dispersion
157
7 The High-Energy Economy
187
8 Energy Crisis and Transition
217
9 Choices
249
Notes
265
Index
325
Illustrations
Page xiv: Cartoon by Ed Koren, The New Yorker, 1971. Source: Library of Congress.
page 14: Illustration from Edward Hazen, The Panorama of Professions and Trades (Uriah Hunt, 1839). Source: Hagley Museum.
page 42: View of Lowell, Massachusetts, c. 1850. Source: Library of Congress.
page 70: Advertisement for S. J. Patterson Company, 1881. Source: Library of Congress.
page 102: "33-horse team harvester," from stereograph by Underwood & Underwood. Used on cover of catalog by Heebner & Sons. Source: Hagley Museum.
page 130: "Woman operating vertical milling machine in Railway Motor Department, General Electric, 1918." Source: General Electric Photographic Archives.
page 156: "South Omaha, 1938," photograph by John Vachon. Source: Library of Congress.
page 186: Advertisement for Investor-Owned Electric Light and Power Companies, 1968. Source: Duke University Special Collections.
page 216: Volkswagen advertisement, 1973. Source: Duke University Special Collections.
page 248: Windmills at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Source: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Acknowledgments
In the process of researching and writing this book I have accumulated many debts. The original idea for the book emerged from a four-day conference I organized in 1989 on consumption and American studies. I learned a good deal from the 25 participants in that event and from editing many of the papers for a conference volume. This book also grew indirectly from an essay that Mick Gidley later asked me to write for a textbook in 1991; both the language and the argument have changed beyond recognition in the intervening years, but the underlying questions I tried to grapple with there remain the same. When I came to Larry Cohen, my editor at The MIT Press, with an outline and a sample chapter, he offered encouragement and also a contract. Initial research at the Odense University Library was supplemented by materials from the Danish Royal Library. A fall 1994 visit to the University of Minnesota's Wilson Library provided me with additional secondary material. In the spring of 1995 I spent several days lecturing at Goethe University in Frankfurt and found useful materials in their library. The Hagley Museum in Delaware generously provided a travel grant in the summer of 1995, and Glenn Porter and Roger Horowitz made my stay both pleasant and productive. Chapters 13 could not have been completed without access to their collections. During the evenings and weekends in Delaware, when temperatures were in the nineties, Gary Kulik arranged access to the air-conditioned Winterthur Library, with its strong collections on everyday life in early America. In November 1995, Special Collections at Duke University gave me a travel grant and access to its
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