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- Fields of Interest: American history and the history of science.
Ronald Tobey grew up near Robert
Frost's home, raised a plaque to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and wondered
confusedly about Mary Baker Eddy. He walked dirt roads, looking
for the one less travelled by, but settled for any road that
led out of town. That road was a freeway to the antipode of
his life. Southern California memorializes itself, but at least
because its conurbation is relevant. Ronald Tobey discovered
historic preservation in a region virtually without history,
a venture challenging to any literary ambition. Way stations
on the highway: B.A. in history at the University of New Hampshire,
M.A. in the History of Science and Ph.D. in American history
at Cornell University. His publications include The American
Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930 and Saving
the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American
Plant Ecology, 1895-1955, and various cultural resource
management reports. Tobey is completing a history of the electrical
modernization of the American home and, with Charles Wetherell,
a history of the citrus industry in California. Among his awards
are: a Ford Foundation Fellowship, two Woodrow Wilson Fellowships,
a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Commendation
by the American Association or State and Local History for Achievement
in Historic Preservation and Public History, and a National
Science Foundation research grant. He is married to a busy attorney
and has two children.
Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical
Modernization of the American Home
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