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In Domesticating Electricity, Gooday argues that electrification was achieved through cultural manoeuvres that transformed the popular idea of electricity in relation to notions of danger, gender and future to make it more palatable to consumers who were unconvinced of the benefits of electrical living. Gooday`s triangular comparison of Britain, the United_States and France concerned places where new electrical innovations directly stimulated technological domestication. The own countries of interest, Japan and Canada, have been often represented as ‘second-tier` electrified countries, playing catch-up to Western Europe and the United_States, when it came to . . .
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