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Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age Marc Landry New edition
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age
Marc Landry
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.
296 pages, 30 halftones, 3 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 21, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9781503641570 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 314 |
| Dimensions | 230 × 152 × 24 mm · 466 g |
| Language | English |