Format:
x, 482 Seiten
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Illustrationen; Karten
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
ISBN:
9780773547865
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9780773547858
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series 6
Content:
"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."--
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Enthält 13 Beiträge
,
Issued also in electronic format.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773599529
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773599536
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Powering up Canada
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kanada
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Energiequelle
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Energiewirtschaft
;
Energieverbrauch
;
Strukturwandel
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Sozialer Wandel
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Geschichte 1600-1980
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