version finale avant épreuvesNational audienceImagination and the development of technical networks: the contribution of the history of rural electrification in France and the USARecent historical work suggests the need to reassess the importance of imagination in the expansion of large technical systems, beyond the initial phase of social appropriation of radically new technologies. This paper discusses the role of imagination in the expansion of electricity networks in rural areas of the US and France. It argues that the strong and lasting public support for rural electrification did not stand to reason. Rather it rested on the “modernizing imaginaire” of elected officials and social modernizers who assumed both that there was a strong co...
This research work addresses a subject of great acuteness, the question of electrification in rural ...
It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countr...
Electricity and Society in the Paris Area (1880-1939) Electricity consumption in the Paris area de...
version finale avant épreuvesNational audienceImagination and the development of technical networks:...
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process w...
Rural electrification in France has entered a new growth phase due to: (i) the development of new en...
Trois temps oubliés marquent l'histoire de l'urbanisme, notamment dans son rapport aux territoires r...
Rural electrification is closely linked one way or another to rural development, and enables the und...
The 'golden age' of French rural history, characterized by the hegemony of the histoire immobile sin...
Revolutions in technologies of exchange are regularly associated with new visions of the world, deve...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
International audienceWhat interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrif...
Abstract Foreign technologies took a prominent part in the electrification of french railway Compani...
Innovation in agriculture. Industrial breeding in the Drôme (France). Analysis of innovation and dif...
Development and rurauty - In France, since World War II, rural development has known great changes. ...
This research work addresses a subject of great acuteness, the question of electrification in rural ...
It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countr...
Electricity and Society in the Paris Area (1880-1939) Electricity consumption in the Paris area de...
version finale avant épreuvesNational audienceImagination and the development of technical networks:...
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process w...
Rural electrification in France has entered a new growth phase due to: (i) the development of new en...
Trois temps oubliés marquent l'histoire de l'urbanisme, notamment dans son rapport aux territoires r...
Rural electrification is closely linked one way or another to rural development, and enables the und...
The 'golden age' of French rural history, characterized by the hegemony of the histoire immobile sin...
Revolutions in technologies of exchange are regularly associated with new visions of the world, deve...
National audienceThis article attempts to understand the technical practices of the ploughmen. But w...
International audienceWhat interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrif...
Abstract Foreign technologies took a prominent part in the electrification of french railway Compani...
Innovation in agriculture. Industrial breeding in the Drôme (France). Analysis of innovation and dif...
Development and rurauty - In France, since World War II, rural development has known great changes. ...
This research work addresses a subject of great acuteness, the question of electrification in rural ...
It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countr...
Electricity and Society in the Paris Area (1880-1939) Electricity consumption in the Paris area de...