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- catalog contributor b3058796.
- catalog coverage "Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) History.".
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-371) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: The energy revolution in the city, 1880-1898. Introduction: The search for better lighting, 1848-1880. The city that coal built ; The gaslight era ; The origins of the electrical revolution -- The battle of the lighting systems, 1880-1893. The fight for the central business district ; The introduction of the arc lamp ; The coming of the Edison system ; The crisis of urban politics, 1880-1893. The corruption of government-business relations ; The consolidation of corporate power -- The rise of Samuel Insull, 1893-1898. The culture of technology ; The perils of progress ; The economics of "natural" monopoly ; The gospel of consumption -- Part II: Metropolitan webs of power, 1898-1914. The "massing of production," 1898-1908. Building a sales campaign ; Building the load ; Building a political consensus -- The electric city, 1902-1912. Electricity comes to the neighborhood ; Electricity comes to the urban fringe ; Electricity comes into the home -- The suburban matrix of energy, 1902-1914. Electricity comes to main street ; Metropolitan connections ; Regional networks ; A regional community of energy consumers -- Part III: The integration of a region, 1914-1932. The energy crisis and the birth of the machine age, 1914-1919. "This is war" ; "Mechanization takes command" ; "Diversify, fertilize, motorize, specialize" ; "A gold-plated anarchist" -- The emergence of an energy-intensive society, 1919-1928. "How long should a wife live?" ; "Where will you rear your children?" ; "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?" -- A ubiquitous world of energy.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 381 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0226670759 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area".
- catalog subject "333.79/32/0977311 20".
- catalog subject "Commonwealth Edison Company History.".
- catalog subject "Electric utilities Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area History.".
- catalog subject "Electrification Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area History.".
- catalog subject "HD9685.U6 C556 1991".
- catalog subject "Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: The energy revolution in the city, 1880-1898. Introduction: The search for better lighting, 1848-1880. The city that coal built ; The gaslight era ; The origins of the electrical revolution -- The battle of the lighting systems, 1880-1893. The fight for the central business district ; The introduction of the arc lamp ; The coming of the Edison system ; The crisis of urban politics, 1880-1893. The corruption of government-business relations ; The consolidation of corporate power -- The rise of Samuel Insull, 1893-1898. The culture of technology ; The perils of progress ; The economics of "natural" monopoly ; The gospel of consumption -- Part II: Metropolitan webs of power, 1898-1914. The "massing of production," 1898-1908. Building a sales campaign ; Building the load ; Building a political consensus -- The electric city, 1902-1912. Electricity comes to the neighborhood ; Electricity comes to the urban fringe ; Electricity comes into the home -- The suburban matrix of energy, 1902-1914. Electricity comes to main street ; Metropolitan connections ; Regional networks ; A regional community of energy consumers -- Part III: The integration of a region, 1914-1932. The energy crisis and the birth of the machine age, 1914-1919. "This is war" ; "Mechanization takes command" ; "Diversify, fertilize, motorize, specialize" ; "A gold-plated anarchist" -- The emergence of an energy-intensive society, 1919-1928. "How long should a wife live?" ; "Where will you rear your children?" ; "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?" -- A ubiquitous world of energy.".
- catalog title "The electric city : energy and the growth of the Chicago area, 1880-1930 / Harold L. Platt.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".