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 |