When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America

by David E. Nye

Book Overview

Blackouts--whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism--offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.

Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013746
• ISBN13: 9780262013741
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher