LEADER 03531nam 22006373 450 001 9911069568303321 005 20241116060244.0 010 $a9781503641587 010 $a1503641589 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503641587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31782785 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31782785 035 $a(CKB)36565266000041 035 $a(DE-B1597)698221 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503641587 035 $a(Perlego)4621496 035 $a(OCoLC)1470861227 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936565266000041 100 $a20241116d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMountain Battery $eThe Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aRedwood City :$cStanford University Press,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (316 pages) 311 08$a9781503639775 311 08$a1503639770 311 08$a9781503641570 311 08$a1503641570 327 $aFront Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Mountains of White Coal -- Two. Carrier of Wasted Natural Forces -- Three. Exploiting Nature's Gifts -- Four. Emergency Power -- Five. Between Cooperation and Autarky -- Six. The Alps and the Energetic Struggle for Existence -- Seven. Completing Europe's Battery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aBy 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. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / General$2bisacsh 610 $aAlps. 610 $aAustria. 610 $aFrance. 610 $aGermany. 610 $aHydropower. 610 $aItaly. 610 $adam building. 610 $adans. 610 $ahydroelectricity. 610 $arenewable energy. 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / General. 676 $a621.31/2134094947 700 $aLandry$b Marc$01897213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911069568303321 996 $aMountain Battery$94552326 997 $aUNINA