Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

by Abbott Gleason (Editor), Abbott Gleason (Editor), William Taubman (Editor), Stephen Doheny-Farina (Author)

Synopsis

In January 1998 a great ice storm crushed power grids in New York, New England and eastern Canada. In this insider's account of these events, the author describes the destruction of the electric network in his own village and illuminates the relationship between electronic and human connections.

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20+ in stock

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 226
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10 Apr 2000

ISBN 10: 0300089775
ISBN 13: 9780300089776