Fixing Niagara Falls : environment, energy, and engineers at the world's most famous waterfall / Daniel Macfarlane ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

"Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade 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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nature, history, society.
Main Author: Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979- (Author)
Other Authors: Wynn, Graeme, 1946- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]
Series:Nature, history, society.
Subjects:
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > History.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > Environmental conditions.
Water-power > Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Ecology.
Water-power.
North America > Niagara Falls.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxxii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century -- Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century -- Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty -- Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations -- Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Falls Waterscape -- Preserving Niagara: The American Falls Campaign. 
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