| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Massell. Amassing Power: J. B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897–1927. (McGill-Queen's Studies on the History of Quebec.) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, in association with the Forest History Society, Inc., Durham, N.C. 2000. Pp. ix, 301. $49.95.

When one thinks of hydroelectric development in Quebec, one usually thinks of the massive James Bay projects sponsored by Premier Robert Bourassa in the 1970s. David Massell, however, demonstrates that interest in big power projects in Quebec predated Bourassa by at least fifty years. He also demonstrates that the earlier Quebec governments were as dedicated to utilizing the province's hydroelectric resources for the benefit of the people of Quebec as was Bourassa. The pivotal difference between Bourassa's government of the 1970s and that of his predecessors was that Bourassa preferred to use the state as an engine of development rather than private enterprise. . . .

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