Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (Ruth W. Sandwell, ed., 2016)

Post-doctorante à l'Université Paris Est Créteil - Gustave Eiffel, Lab'Urba

Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600
Référence(s) bibliographique(s)

Ruth W. Sandwell (ed.), Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).

Résumé

Powering Up Canada investigates the problem of energy in Canada with an interdisciplinary approach and a historical longue durée perspective. Edited in January 2016 by R. W. Sandwell, the volume follows a symposium organized in 2013 by the Network in Canadian History and Environment around a common question: what History for energy in Canada? Powering Up Canada aims at being a first comprehensive overview of the role that different forms of energy and private and public actors had in shaping the history of this country.