Negotiating a River

A revealing look at the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that forever changed both a unique landscape and North American history.

A revealing look at the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project -- a megaproject that had a profound impact on North American history.

Daniel Macfarlane is an assistant professor of environmental and sustainability studies at Western Michigan University.

Norman Hillmer, professor of history and international affairs, Carleton University and co-author of For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States into the Twenty-First Century:
Daniel Macfarlane combines impressive archival research with a synthetic approach engaging diverse fields, particularly Canada-US relations and environmental history, but also transnational, borderlands, water, hydroelectric, and technological studies. This innovative and often bold book heralds a generation of scholars who will obliterate the lines between subdisciplines and bring Canadian history and historians together.

from the Foreword by Graeme Wynn:
Drawing from and speaking to many intellectual constituencies in this remarkably wide-ranging work, Macfarlane deepens our understanding of twentieth-century Canadian history even as he broadens the scope of Canadian environmental historical scholarship and leaves his readers to ponder the illusory boundaries between technologies and environments.