Description
Book SynopsisCanada 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
Trade Review
'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
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Seeking Control 3. C'est la Guerre 4. Keepers of the Light 5. Wartime Conservation 6. The Prairie Ruhr 7. Wringing the Last Kilowatt 8. Conclusion
