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Bill Luckin. Questions of Power: Electricity and Environment in Inter-War Britain. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 200. ISBN 0-7190-3302-0. £29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

David E. Nye
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1992

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1 For a detailed account of Insull's pricing policies, their technological basis, and political context, see Platt, Harold L., The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.Google Scholar

2 Hannah, Leslie, Electricity Before Nationalisation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.CrossRefGoogle ScholarHughes, Thomas P., Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.Google Scholar