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Title Electric worlds = Mondes électriques : creations, circulations, tensions, transitions (19th-21th C.) / Alain Beltran, Léonard Laborie, Pierre Lanthier, Stéphanie Le Gallic (eds.)
Published Brussels : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations
Series Histoire de l ́nergie = History of energy ; vol. 8
Histoire de l'énergie ; no. 8
Contents Cover; Table of Contents / Table des matières; Part 1. Creations; Introduction; Bright Lights, Brilliant Wits. Caricature and Electric Light in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris; From Gas to Electric. Georges Seurat, Brassaï and the City of Light; Electricity at Court. Technology in Representation of Imperial Power; Architecture in a New Light. Architects and Illuminating Engineers in the Early Twentieth Century United States; De la circulation à l'appropriation. La patrimonialisation du paysage de néon aux États-Unis; Part 2. Circulations
The Branches of Large Electricity Companies in Portugal. From Trade to the Transfer and Adaptation of Technology (Twentieth Century)La réglementation internationale -- apport de la Tchécoslovaquie à la normalisation électrotechnique en Europe. La coopération de Vladimír List et Ernest Mercier et son importance pour l'introduction du système MIR dans les années 1960 dans les pays du Conseil d'assistance économique mutuelle; La part des capitaux français dans les sociétés électrotechniques tchécoslovaques durant l'entre-deux-guerres et au début de la guerre froide
Electrical Colonialism. Techno-politics and British Engineering Expertise in the Making of the Electricity Supply Industry in CyprusLe frère cadet. France's Contributions to Spanish Nuclear Development, c. 1960s-1980s; "Spain -- Eximbank's Billion Dollar Client". The Role of the US Financing the Spanish Nuclear Program; Part 3. Tensions; Bias in Electric Power Systems. A Technological Fine Point at the Intersection of Commodity and Service; Origine et perspectives de l'électrification rurale au Cameroun; The Akosombo Dam and the Quest for Rural Electrification in Ghana
Le développement des technologies de l'information et de la communication en Côte d'Ivoire face aux contraintes d'énergie électriqueFaire dialoguer scientifiques et politiques surl'énergie nucléaire en France dans les années 1970. Deux initiatives autour du projet Superphénix; Réacteurs nucléaires mobiles en régions polaires. Le cas controversé de " PM-3A " en Antarctique; Public Dams, Private Power. Electric Energy and Political Economy in the Post-Second World War US South; Le barrage des Trois-Gorges. Des déplacements de populations sous contrôle; Part 4. Transitions
"Lord, We Don't Want to Hurt People". The Decline and Fall of the American Electric Utility Industry in the 1970sDesigning the Energy Future. Two Narratives on Energy Planning in Denmark, 1973-1990; Les monuments de la transition énergétique; Preparing a Solar Take-Off. Solar Energy Demonstration and Exhibitions in Japan, 1945-1993; Adapting to a Bearish Nuclear Market. The Transition of Framatome in the 1980s; Is Small Really Beautiful? Operating Early Brazilian Power Plants; Les quatre phases de l'histoire de l'électricité en Inde, de 1890 à nos jours; Contributeurs
Summary Electrification is a process which began almost 150 years ago but which more than one billion men and women still don't have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the historiography related to the electrical age
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Subject Electricity -- History
Electrical engineering -- History
Electric industries -- History
Electric utilities -- History
Electric power transmission -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Electric industries
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electrical engineering
Electricity
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Beltran, Alain
Laborie, Léonard
Lanthier, Pierre, 1951-
Le Gallic, Stéphanie
ISBN 9783035266054
3035266050
Other Titles Mondes électriques