Mountain Battery The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age

"Mountain Battery is a must read for energy historians. Telling a deeply transnational story, Marc Landry illustrates how the vision of a hydraulically powered Europe was used both to bring countries together and to advance the ambitions of economic autarchy and militarization."
-Stephen Gross, New York University "Marc Landry makes a fascinating case for how technology, geopolitics, and imagination combined to make Europe's modern energy landscape by plumbing and wiring the Alps into giant reservoirs of white coal. It is a story about the surprising interdependencies of coal, hydropower, and ultimately, electricity that has urgent implications for the renewable energy transition ahead."
-James Morton Turner, Wellesley College "Landry's book is an excellent pioneering study. It skillfully combines exemplary and generalizing passages, which also makes it an enjoyable read."-Jon Mathiew, Austrian History Yearbook