Electric Worlds / Mondes lectriques

What interpretation(s) do todays historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the historiography in both its themes and its approaches. Four questions about the passage to the electrical age are raised: which innovations or combination of innovations made this passage a reality? According to which networks and appropriation? Evolving thanks to which tensions and alliances? And resulting in which transition and accumulation? Quel(s) regard(s) les historiens daujourdhui portent-ils sur llectrification, processus engag il y a prs de cent cinquante ans mais auquel plus dun milliard dhommes et de femmes restent encore trangers ? Le prsent volume rend compte de la diversit des mondes sociaux lectriques et des manires denquter sur leur histoire. Il actualise les connaissances et tmoigne du renouvellement de lhistoriographie, dans ses objets et ses approches. Quatre points dinterrogation sur le basculement des socits dans lge lectrique jalonnent le volume : moyennant quelles crations ou combinaisons cratrices ? En vertu de quelles circulations et appropriations ? Selon quelles tensions et alliances ? Et produisant quelles transitions et accumulations ?