Title & Author:

Powering up Canada : a history of power, fuel, and energy from 1600 / edited by R.W. Sandwell.

Publication:

Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

x, 482 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

Series:

McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-471) and index.
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 -- 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 -- Coal in Canada / Andrew Watson -- Hydroelectricity / Matthew Evenden -- Petroleum liquids / Steve Penfold -- Manufactured and natural gas / Colin A.M. Duncan -- Nuclear power / Laurel Sefton MacDowell -- Reflections, questions, and tentative conclusions / R.W. Sandwell -- appendicies. Primer on terminology / Colin A.M. Duncan -- Selected sources of energy statistics : general and by energy -- Selected energy consumption statistics -- Preliminary list of communities with manufactured gas plants in Canada / Colin A.M. Duncan.

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.
"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.

ISBN:

9780773547858 (cloth)
0773547851 (cloth)
(paper)
9780773547865
(epdf)
9780773599529
(epub)
9780773599536
077354786X (paper)
9780773547865 (paper)

Subject:

Power resources Canada History.
Ressources énergétiques Canada Histoire.
Power resources.
Energiewirtschaft
Natürliche Ressourcen
Rohstoff
Energiequelle
Energiekonsum
Strukturwandel
Sozialer Wandel
Geschichte
Kanada
Canada.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Sandwell, R. W. (Ruth Wells), 1955- editor.
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 293106
Call No.: BIB 237756
Status: Available