Matthew Evenden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1157577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Evenden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Evenden |
| SIGNATURE | EVENDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9694-9090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations . Daniel Macfarlane
Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War
In his Faunal Connections between Europe and North America (1957), a landmark study of ecological introductions from Europe to North America that prefigured Alfred Crosby’s Columbian Exchange by three decades, Carl Lindroth sought to explain the distribution of fauna and particularly insects across the North Atlantic. It was the culmination of a multi-year investigation begun in 1949 that had seen the Swedish ecologist and entomologist collect in…
Water powers: The Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany
Comparing three of the major hydroelectric power-producing countries during the war – Canada, the United States, and Germany – this article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy, and how wartime decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems. Despite different starting points, all three countries pursued similar strategies in attempting to mobilize hydroelectricity …
Debating water purity and expertise: The chlorination controversy in Vancouver during the Second World War
Beyond the Organic Machine? New Approaches in River Historiography
This article considers the growth of river historiography in environmental history and the influence of foundational works, with a particular focus on Richard White’s The Organic Machine. While environmental historians have increasingly rejected oppositional ontologies and engaged hybrid approaches in their studies of rivers, they have also moved beyond White’s specific concerns and developed a range of new substantive areas of focus while explor…
Essays in Canadian Economic History
This volume collects Innis’ published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries
Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism by Paul Kellogg
Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance
In this broadly conceived and important book, Craig E. Colten argues that it is impossible to understand the range of contemporary water challenges in the U.S. South without examining the region's past experience. Flood hazards are not new, nor are the social debates about how to plan for them. Although water supply risks are becoming more common, the reasons why can be traced through shifting patterns of settlement, technology, and consumption. …
Aluminum, Commodity Chains, and the Environmental History of the Second World War
The Second World War drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war produced new commodity chains over distance to deliver scarce military goods to combat zones and how those commodity chains precipitated different social and environmental effects along…
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
A View from the Bush: Space, Environment and the Historiography of Science
This paper examines the interdisciplinary connections among the history of science, historical geography and environmental history. Four approaches have shaped recent scholarship: a spatial approach developed primarily but not exclusively within the discipline of geography that emphasizes problems of space, place, location and circulation; second, a disciplinary approach which pursues histories of environmental disciplines; third, a science and c…
Reflections: Environmental History Pedagogy Beyond History and on the Web
Mobilizing Rivers: Hydro-Electricity, the State, and World War II in Canada
World War II drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war imposed political pressures on states, industries, and citizens that conditioned the resource development process and overrode preexisting constraints. Examining Canada's role as a supply wareh…
La mobilisation des rivières et du fleuve pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Québec et l’hydroélectricité, 1939-1945
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, les fleuves et les rivières canadiennes furent mobilisés pour fournir de l’énergie pour la production militaire. Au Québec plus que dans toute autre province, on assista à l’intégration de réseaux hydroélectriques, à la construction de barrages, et à l’introduction de nouvelles méthodes de planification de la conservation énergétique. Ces actions eurent pour effet d’augmenter substantiellement l’énergie électr…
Precarious foundations: Irrigation, environment, and social change in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Eastern Section, 1900–1930
Twenty-first-century magic
Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores th…
Social and environmental change at Hells Gate, British Columbia
Locating Science, Locating Salmon: Institutions, Linkages, and Spatial Practices in Early British Columbia Fisheries Science
Fisheries scientists established institutions, engaged metropolitan ideas and local knowledge, and worked out particular spatial practices to produce fisheries science in early-20th-century British Columbia. Problems of distance and the mobility of scientific specimens shaped practices. The difficulties of operating in a peripheral location influenced the institutional development of the field and the emphases of science towards commercially impo…
Fire's Cycle and Pyne's History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Harold Innis, the Arctic Survey, and the Politics of Social Science during the Second World War
The Arctic Survey initiated and reflected the concerns of a new northern social science during the Second World War. It brought together an interdisciplinary team from across Canada to create a revised southern understanding of an evolving Canadian North. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, organized as the first cooperative research project of the Canadian Social Science Research Council (CSSRC), and led by Harold Innis, the survey was a respo…
An Interview with Donald Worster about Environmental History, 13 June 1994
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Essays in Canadian Economic History
This volume collects Innis’ published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries
Aluminum, Commodity Chains, and the Environmental History of the Second World War
The Second World War drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war produced new commodity chains over distance to deliver scarce military goods to combat zones and how those commodity chains precipitated different social and environmental effects along…
Beyond the Organic Machine? New Approaches in River Historiography
This article considers the growth of river historiography in environmental history and the influence of foundational works, with a particular focus on Richard White’s The Organic Machine. While environmental historians have increasingly rejected oppositional ontologies and engaged hybrid approaches in their studies of rivers, they have also moved beyond White’s specific concerns and developed a range of new substantive areas of focus while explor…
Mobilizing Rivers: Hydro-Electricity, the State, and World War II in Canada
World War II drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war imposed political pressures on states, industries, and citizens that conditioned the resource development process and overrode preexisting constraints. Examining Canada's role as a supply wareh…
Locating Science, Locating Salmon: Institutions, Linkages, and Spatial Practices in Early British Columbia Fisheries Science
Fisheries scientists established institutions, engaged metropolitan ideas and local knowledge, and worked out particular spatial practices to produce fisheries science in early-20th-century British Columbia. Problems of distance and the mobility of scientific specimens shaped practices. The difficulties of operating in a peripheral location influenced the institutional development of the field and the emphases of science towards commercially impo…
Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores th…
Water powers: The Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany
Comparing three of the major hydroelectric power-producing countries during the war – Canada, the United States, and Germany – this article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy, and how wartime decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems. Despite different starting points, all three countries pursued similar strategies in attempting to mobilize hydroelectricity …
Debating water purity and expertise: The chlorination controversy in Vancouver during the Second World War
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
Reflections: Environmental History Pedagogy Beyond History and on the Web
La mobilisation des rivières et du fleuve pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Québec et l’hydroélectricité, 1939-1945
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, les fleuves et les rivières canadiennes furent mobilisés pour fournir de l’énergie pour la production militaire. Au Québec plus que dans toute autre province, on assista à l’intégration de réseaux hydroélectriques, à la construction de barrages, et à l’introduction de nouvelles méthodes de planification de la conservation énergétique. Ces actions eurent pour effet d’augmenter substantiellement l’énergie électr…
Precarious foundations: Irrigation, environment, and social change in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Eastern Section, 1900–1930
Social and environmental change at Hells Gate, British Columbia
An Interview with Donald Worster about Environmental History, 13 June 1994
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Harold Innis, the Arctic Survey, and the Politics of Social Science during the Second World War
The Arctic Survey initiated and reflected the concerns of a new northern social science during the Second World War. It brought together an interdisciplinary team from across Canada to create a revised southern understanding of an evolving Canadian North. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, organized as the first cooperative research project of the Canadian Social Science Research Council (CSSRC), and led by Harold Innis, the survey was a respo…
Fire's Cycle and Pyne's History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Social and environmental change at Hells Gate, British Columbia
Locating Science, Locating Salmon: Institutions, Linkages, and Spatial Practices in Early British Columbia Fisheries Science
Fisheries scientists established institutions, engaged metropolitan ideas and local knowledge, and worked out particular spatial practices to produce fisheries science in early-20th-century British Columbia. Problems of distance and the mobility of scientific specimens shaped practices. The difficulties of operating in a peripheral location influenced the institutional development of the field and the emphases of science towards commercially impo…
Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development an declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores th…
Precarious foundations: Irrigation, environment, and social change in the Canadian Pacific Railway's Eastern Section, 1900–1930
Twenty-first-century magic
La mobilisation des rivières et du fleuve pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Québec et l’hydroélectricité, 1939-1945
Pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, les fleuves et les rivières canadiennes furent mobilisés pour fournir de l’énergie pour la production militaire. Au Québec plus que dans toute autre province, on assista à l’intégration de réseaux hydroélectriques, à la construction de barrages, et à l’introduction de nouvelles méthodes de planification de la conservation énergétique. Ces actions eurent pour effet d’augmenter substantiellement l’énergie électr…
A View from the Bush: Space, Environment and the Historiography of Science
This paper examines the interdisciplinary connections among the history of science, historical geography and environmental history. Four approaches have shaped recent scholarship: a spatial approach developed primarily but not exclusively within the discipline of geography that emphasizes problems of space, place, location and circulation; second, a disciplinary approach which pursues histories of environmental disciplines; third, a science and c…
Reflections: Environmental History Pedagogy Beyond History and on the Web
Mobilizing Rivers: Hydro-Electricity, the State, and World War II in Canada
World War II drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war imposed political pressures on states, industries, and citizens that conditioned the resource development process and overrode preexisting constraints. Examining Canada's role as a supply wareh…
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
Aluminum, Commodity Chains, and the Environmental History of the Second World War
The Second World War drove an unprecedented search for resources at a global scale to supply military activity in Europe, Asia, and beyond. This article contributes to recent debates about the environmental consequences of global warfare by examining how total war produced new commodity chains over distance to deliver scarce military goods to combat zones and how those commodity chains precipitated different social and environmental effects along…
Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance
In this broadly conceived and important book, Craig E. Colten argues that it is impossible to understand the range of contemporary water challenges in the U.S. South without examining the region's past experience. Flood hazards are not new, nor are the social debates about how to plan for them. Although water supply risks are becoming more common, the reasons why can be traced through shifting patterns of settlement, technology, and consumption. …
Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism by Paul Kellogg
Essays in Canadian Economic History
This volume collects Innis’ published and unpublished essays on economic history, from 1929 to 1952, thereby charting the development of the arguments and ideas found in his books The Fur Trade in Canada and The Cod Fisheries
Beyond the Organic Machine? New Approaches in River Historiography
This article considers the growth of river historiography in environmental history and the influence of foundational works, with a particular focus on Richard White’s The Organic Machine. While environmental historians have increasingly rejected oppositional ontologies and engaged hybrid approaches in their studies of rivers, they have also moved beyond White’s specific concerns and developed a range of new substantive areas of focus while explor…
Debating water purity and expertise: The chlorination controversy in Vancouver during the Second World War
Water powers: The Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany
Comparing three of the major hydroelectric power-producing countries during the war – Canada, the United States, and Germany – this article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy, and how wartime decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems. Despite different starting points, all three countries pursued similar strategies in attempting to mobilize hydroelectricity …
Stowaway Beetles: Carl Lindroth, the Ballast Theory, and Transatlantic Science in the Cold War
In his Faunal Connections between Europe and North America (1957), a landmark study of ecological introductions from Europe to North America that prefigured Alfred Crosby’s Columbian Exchange by three decades, Carl Lindroth sought to explain the distribution of fauna and particularly insects across the North Atlantic. It was the culmination of a multi-year investigation begun in 1949 that had seen the Swedish ecologist and entomologist collect in…
Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US–Canada Relations . Daniel Macfarlane
Political science (14 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · History (8 works) · Canadian Identity and History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)