LEADER 04348nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910783505703321 005 20230912161840.0 010 $a1-282-85850-5 010 $a9786612858505 010 $a0-7735-6831-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773568310 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244827 035 $a(EBL)3330586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000276790 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228647 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276790 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232825 035 $a(PQKB)10004649 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400052 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521336 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132767 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285850 035 $a(OCoLC)929120809 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/67fvsf 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330586 035 $a(DE-B1597)657516 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773568310 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243496 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244827 100 $a20010914d2000 ua 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmassing power$b[electronic resource] $eJ.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927 /$fDavid Massell 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press ;$aDurham, N.C. $cIn association with the Forest History Society$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 225 1 $aStudies on the history of Quebec 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7735-2033-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Problem and Its Sources""; ""1 The River Passes into Private Hands, 1897 a??? 1907""; ""2 A Shift in Scale, 1909 a??? 1912""; ""3 J.B. Duke, Master Trader, 1912 a??? 1914""; ""4 The Province Attempts to Keep Pace, 1910 a??? 1915""; ""5 Local Politics, Big Business, and an Intransigent State: The Fiasco of 1915 a??? 1916""; ""6 A Lake Grant Won, 1916 a??? 1922""; ""7 The Balance of Power, 1923 a??? 1927""; ""Conclusion: The Limits to American Investment""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aThe damming of the Saguenay brought industrialisation on a grand scale to rural Quebec in the form of newsprint and aluminum manufacture. Tapping into rich and diverse sources in Canada, the United States, and Europe, Massell provides an interdisciplinary, cross-border study of American capital and Canadian resources. He shows us how ever-larger amounts of capital yielded increasingly massive and sophisticated applications of hydroelectric technology. Grand industrial plans, in turn, encroached upon provincial water rights and farmers' lands, which drew the attention of the state. He examines the protracted power struggle between public and private interests - between American capitalists and the nascent bureaucracy of the province of Quebec - and describes the origins and evolution of the events that led to state control over hydraulic resources in the province. In doing so he provides vivid portraits of Duke and of Quebec politicians of the period and gives a dramatic account of the protracted battle of wits between Duke's chief engineer, William States Lee, and Quebec's chief of Hydraulic Service, Arthur Amos. Amassing Power speaks to the integration of North American economies, vividly illustrating the process by which American capital drew Canada's resource-rich North into the economic orbit of the United States. 410 0$aStudies on the history of Quebec. 606 $aHydroelectric power plants$zQue?bec (Province)$xHistory 606 $aIndustrialization$zQue?bec (Province)$xHistory 607 $aSaguenay River (Que?bec)$xPower utilization$xHistory 607 $aSaguenay Region (Que?bec)$xHistory 607 $aQue?bec (Province)$xPolitics and government 615 0$aHydroelectric power plants$xHistory. 615 0$aIndustrialization$xHistory. 676 $a333.91/415/0971416 700 $aMassell$b David Perera$01584585 712 02$aForest History Society. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783505703321 996 $aAmassing power$93868506 997 $aUNINA