Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall (Nature | History | Society) - Hardcover

Macfarlane, Daniel

 
9780774864220: Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall (Nature | History | Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0774864222 ISBN 13: 9780774864220
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians conspired to manipulate the world's most famous waterfall. Essentially, they turned this natural wonder into a tap: huge tunnels divert the waters of the Niagara River around the Falls, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. To hide the visual impact of diverting the majority of the water, the United States and Canada cooperated to install massive control works while reshaping and shrinking the Horseshoe Falls. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on how the Niagara landscape ultimately embodies both the power of technology and the power of nature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Macfarlane is an associate professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. He is also a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, and president of the International Water History Association. He is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and also co-edited Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian–American Water Relationship with Lynne Heasley, and The First Century of the International Joint Commission with Murray Clamen.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774864222
ISBN 13 
9780774864220
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
332
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