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Article Excerpt
Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International
Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007, by William J.
Hausman, Peter Herner and Mira Wilkins. (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2008) 487 pages, ISBN 978-0-521-88035-0, Hardback, $80.
Global Electrification by three distinguished professors is by any description an academic tome whose scholarship is unparalleled, with its nearly 170 pages of footnotes and bibliography. As set out in its early chapters, the book makes a vital contribution to the literature in documenting in extensive detail the role that multinational enterprise and international finance played in the expansion of global electrification. The authors' thesis that the involvement of these diverse actors played a major role in the process of global electrification by making available modern infrastructure more "widely, sooner and more efficiently than would otherwise been the case" is supported with a vast array of archival records and other manuscripts that are truly dazzling in the depth of their intellectual ardor and expertise. As a reference work,...
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