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Mathew Evenden - Allied Power - 9781442648500 - V9781442648500
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Allied Power

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Description for Allied Power Allied Power examines the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact of that wartime expansion on Canada's power systems, rivers, and politics. Num Pages: 290 pages, 25, 4 figures, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; RNFY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442648500
SKU
V9781442648500
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Mathew Evenden
Matthew Evenden is a professor in the Department of Geography as well as the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for Allied Power
‘Eminently readable, engaging, and well supported with ample maps and images, this book will be useful not only for scholars of the Canadian home front and wartime mobilization, but also for those looking at other countries in the context of resource development during the Second World War.’
Daniel Macfarlane
H-Environment, September 2015
‘This book will appeal to ... Read more

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