No symbol of progress in our century is more galvanizing than electricity--electric power and the technology it has spawned. The "invisible world" of electric energy that was emerging at the turn of the century is one we take for granted, but its influence on the growth and quality of city life was, and remains, profound. Using Chicago as a test case, Harold L. Platt investigates the emergence of an urban-based, energy-intensive society over the course of half a century in this first book-length history of energy use in the ...
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No symbol of progress in our century is more galvanizing than electricity--electric power and the technology it has spawned. The "invisible world" of electric energy that was emerging at the turn of the century is one we take for granted, but its influence on the growth and quality of city life was, and remains, profound. Using Chicago as a test case, Harold L. Platt investigates the emergence of an urban-based, energy-intensive society over the course of half a century in this first book-length history of energy use in the city.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0226670759. B&W Photographs, Figures and Maps; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 381 pages; 1991 University of Chicago Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Bright, tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. Illustrated with b&w phots, maps and figures. F/F.
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Very Good + in as new jacket. Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930. 8vo. xviii, 382 pp. Bound in half dark brown over mustard, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Very Good+, previous owner's name in red ink to front free endpaper, light wear to extremities, else clean and crisp, in Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear.
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1991 Platt, Harold THE ELECTRIC CITY; ENERGY AND THE GROWTH OF THE CHICAGO AREA, 1880-1930 381pp, index, notes, black and white illustrations 8vo scattered small faint spots on outer edge of textblock, else fine bright unread hardcover in fine d/j.
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FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH VERY MODEST COLOR FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
