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  title info:
    title: Mountain battery
    sub title: the Alps, water, and power in the fossil fuel age
  name:
    name part: Landry, Marc
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: Mountains of white coal -- Carrier of wasted natural forces -- Exploiting nature's gifts -- Emergency power -- Between cooperation and autarky -- The Alps and the energetic struggle for existence -- Completing Europe's battery.
  note: Marc Landry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-282) and index.
  note: ASEH:George Perkins Marsh Prize. Winner, 2026
  subject:
    geographic code: ea-----
  subject:
    topic: Water-power
    geographic: Alps Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Hydroelectric power plants
    geographic: Alps Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Electric power production
    geographic: Alps Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
    geographic: Alps Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Centrales hydroélectriques
    geographic: Alpes
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Électricité
    topic: Production
    geographic: Alpes
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Énergies renouvelables
    geographic: Alpes
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Hydraulics
  classification: TC495.A44 L36 2025
  classification: 621.31/2134094947
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    title info:
      title: Mountain battery
    name:
      name part: Landry, Marc.
    origin info:
      publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024026943
    identifier: (OCoLC)1445423966
  identifier: 9781503639775
  identifier: 1503639770
  identifier: 9781503641570
  identifier: 1503641570
  identifier: 9781503641587
  identifier: 2024026942
  record info:
    record content source: CSt/DLC
    record creation date: 240629
    record change date: 20250416141411.1
    record identifier: in00005785138
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng