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Electric power in Victorian Britain. Volume III Electric power, politics and culture

Name: Electric power in Victorian Britain. Volume III Electric power, politics and culture
Author: Nathan Kapoor

Nathan Kapoor

22 December 2025

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Book Synopsis

This volume of primary sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures or "grids" as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how citizens, novelists, doctors, politicians, and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future.

About The Author

Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Nathan Kapoor is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781032281728
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Routledge, (22 December 2025)
Number of Pages: 254
Weight: 690 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 234 mm
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Categories:: Energy, power generation, distribution and storage Industrialisation and industrial European