The Grid and the Village

The Grid and the Village
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-13 : 9780300133820
ISBN-10 : 0300133820
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Book Synopsis The Grid and the Village by : Stephen Doheny-Farina

Download or read book The Grid and the Village written by Stephen Doheny-Farina and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on electric grids and tells the stories about two villages separated by time, connected by proximity, and united by the challenges of maintaining a community under duress. It provides a glimpse of what it took to build the kind of grids that made America, the grids which connect people to one another, and is told through the experiences of some of the people who sacrificed the most to build the grids.


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