| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 6 |
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McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 6.
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| Contents |
An introduction to Canada's energy history / R.W. Sandwell -- Food energy and the expansion of the Canadian fur trade / George Colpitts -- Ox and horse power in rural Canada / J.I. Little -- Horse power in the modern city / Joanna Dean and Lucas Wilson -- Hewers of wood: A history of wood energy in Canada / Joshua MacFadyen -- Wind power: sails, mills, pumps, and turbines / Eric W. Sager -- Water power before hydroelectricity / Jenny Clayton and Philip Van Huizen -- Coal in Canada / Andrew Watson -- Hydroelectricity / Matthew Evenden and Jonathan Peyton -- Petroleum liquids / Steve Penfold -- Manufactured and natural gas / Colin A.M. Duncan and R.W. Sandwell -- Nuclear power / Laurel Sefton MacDowell -- Reflections, questions, and tentative conclusions / R.W. Sandwell |
| Summary |
"With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods. Powering Up Canada is the first book to examine in detail how various sources of power, fuel and energy that have sustained Canadians over time and played a pivotal role in their history."-- Provided by publisher |
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"Powering Up Canada investigates the ways that the production, processing, transportation, use, and waste issues of various forms of energy changed over time, tansforming almost every aspect of society in the process. Chapters in Part I explore the energies of the organic regime--food, animal muscle, water, wind, and firewood--while those in Part II focus on coal, oil, gas, hydroelectricity, and nuclear power defining the mineral regime. Contributors identify both continuities and disparities in Canada's changing energy landscape in this first full overview of the country's distinctive energy history. Reaching across disciplinary boundaries, these essays demonstrate not only why and how energy serves as a lens through which to better understand the country's history, but provide as well ways of thinking about some of its most pressing contemporary concerns."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Power resources -- Canada -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Power resources
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sandwell, R. W. (Ruth Wells), 1955- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780773599529 |
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0773599525 |
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9780773599536 |
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0773599533 |
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