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

by Matthew Evenden

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1442626259

ISBN13:9781442626256

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:290 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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