This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
ISBN: | 9780822965299 |
Publication date: | 5th February 2018 |
Author: | Graeme Gooday |
Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Series: | Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
Genres: |
European history History and Archaeology Gender studies, gender groups |