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Enterprise and Society 2007 8(3):745-747; doi:10.1093/es/khm063
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

James Delbourgo. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

James Delbourgo. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. ix + 367 pp. ISBN 0-674-02299-8, $29.95 (cloth)

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James Delbourgo, chair of a program in the history and philosophy of science at McGill University, examines the disparate views on electricity held in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by a broad variety of individuals including scientists, showmen, clergymen, physicians, and medical quacks. Delbourgo sometimes succeeds in connecting these views on electricity with other cultural and political ideas of the time. Not primarily about the history of science, this book is more about cultural and popular intellectual history.

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John L. Neufeld

University of North Carolina at Greensboro


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