Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age - Paperback
by Marc Landry
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503641570ISBN-10:1503641570UPC:9781503641570Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCHC22YKGQ
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age
By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal" a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503641570ISBN-10:1503641570UPC:9781503641570Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCHC22YKGQ
Marc Landry is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans.
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