Marc Landry: Mountain Battery | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781503641570 | Mountain Battery | The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age

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Beschreibung

"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 Alps into Europe's "battery" - an energy landscape designed to store and produce electricity for use throughout the Continent. These stores of energy played an important role in supplying the war economies of west-central Europe in both world wars as demand for munitions and other factory production necessitated access to electrical energy and the conservation of coal. Through historical research conducted in archives across Europe - especially in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy - Landry shows how and why Europeans thoroughly transformed the Alps in order to generate hydroelectricity, and explores the effects of its attendant economic and military advantages across the turbulent twentieth century. Landry surveys the environmental and energy changes wrought by dam-building, demonstrating that with global warming, melting glaciers, and calls for a green energy transition, the future of white coal is once again in question in twenty-first-century Europe"--

Über den Autor

Marc Landry is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Mountains of White Coal

2. Carrier of Wasted Natural Forces

3. Exploiting Nature's Gifts

4. Emergency Power

5. Between Cooperation and Autarky

6. The Alps and the Energetic Struggle for Existence

7. Completing Europe's Battery

Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781503641570
ISBN-10:	1503641570
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Landry, Marc
Hersteller:	Combined Academic Publ. Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	29 halftones, 1 map
Maße:	227 x 150 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Marc Landry
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.01.2025
Gewicht:	0,464 kg

Artikel-ID: 131023355

Über den Autor

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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