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The 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.
Hydroelectric power plants --- Industrialization --- History. --- Duke, James Buchanan, --- Saguenay River (Québec) --- Saguenay Region (Québec) --- Québec (Province) --- Power utilization --- Politics and government. --- Saguenay River (Quebec) --- Saguenay Region (Quebec) --- Quebec (Province)
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"Featuring new archival research and previously unpublished photographs and architectural plans, this volume fundamentally revises our understanding of the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture, interior design, and adaptive re-use. Contributions from emerging and established scholars, art historians, and practitioners offer a multi-faceted analysis of major figures such as Horace Trumbauer, Julian Francis Abele, Robert Venturi, and Richard Kelly. Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today"--
American Studies --- Architecture --- Art History --- Cultural Studies --- History --- Social History --- Social Sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- American studies --- Design and construction --- North America. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- Art history --- History of art --- Dwellings --- Eclecticism in architecture --- Dwellings. --- Eclecticism in architecture. --- Duke, James Buchanan, --- Trumbauer, Horace, --- Abele, Julian F., --- 1 East 78th Street House (New York, N.Y.) --- New York University. --- 1898-1951 --- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- Upper class --- Architecture, Domestic --- Mansions --- Homes and haunts --- Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) --- 1 East 78th Street House (New York, N.Y.). --- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.).
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