Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada's Second World War - Softcover

Matthew Evenden

 
9781442626256: Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada's Second World War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1442626259 ISBN 13: 9781442626256
Publisher: Toronto University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact of that wartime expansion on Canada's power systems, rivers, and politics. Matthew Evenden argues that the wartime power crisis facilitated an unprecedented expansion of state control over hydro-electric development, boosting the country's generating capacity and making an important material contribution to the Allied war effort at the same time as it exacerbated regional disparities, transformed rivers through dam construction, and changed public attitudes to electricity though power conservation programs. An important contribution to the political, environmental, and economic history of wartime Canada, Allied Power is an innovative examination of a little-known aspect of Canada's Second World War experience.

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About the Author

Matthew Evenden is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

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Publisher
Toronto University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1442626259
ISBN 13 
9781442626256
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288

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