“Allied Power is a path-defining study of the energy sources for modern warfare and the environmental costs of ‘clean power,’ by one of Canada’s leading historical geographers. Uniting environmental history, warfare history, and economic development studies, Matthew Evenden opens a new perspective on the global reach of the Second World War.”

Richard P. Tucker, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

“Allied Power firmly establishes Matthew Evenden as a premier historian of the Canadian environment. The book achieves what few works of Canadian history can muster: nearly Canada-wide geographic coverage that nevertheless accounts for nuanced regional and provincial variation. It has much to teach about Canadian wartime hydro-electric development and its consequences for human and natural communities.”

David Massell, Department of History, University of Vermont

“An original and ambitious book, Allied Power tackles broad and important themes in an engaging and accessible fashion. It augments our understanding of the shared commitment by business and government to harnessing Canadian natural resources for the war effort and explains in detail the extraordinary complexity of developing power generation and distribution facilities on a scale capable of meeting skyrocketing demand.”

Keith Fleming, Department of History, Western University