Fixing Niagara Falls

Daniel Macfarlane is an associate professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. He is also a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, and president of the International Water History Association. He is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and also co-edited Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian–American Water Relationship with Lynne Heasley, and The First Century of the International Joint Commission with Murray Clamen.

• Foreword: Iconic Falls, Contrived Landscapes, and Tantalizing OpportunitiesGraeme WynnIntroduction: Characterizing Niagara1 Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century2 Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century3 Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty4 Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations5 Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Falls Waterscape6 Preserving Niagara: The American Falls CampaignConclusion: Fabricating NiagaraNotes; Bibliography; Index

Macfarlane has crafted an exemplary work of scholarship. - Donald C. Jackson, Lafayette College (Technology and Culture) Historians and general readers interested in the Falls and in issues connected with the associated technological and political background will appreciate this work.- A.M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University (CHOICE) Fixing Niagara Falls is an excellent monograph that cleverly analyzes how engineering interventions and human hubris helped make the Niagara Falls that we are familiar with today. - Clarence Hatton-Proulx (NiCHE) "… Macfarlane's great contribution is to provide a comprehensive account of the creation of the engineering complex at Niagara Falls…"- Mark Sholdice, King's University College at Western University (Ontario Historical Society Review) With this carefully researched study, we find in Niagara Falls a locus of past concerns that reverberate today: the realities of appropriation, the hubristic underbelly of "green" energy, the politics of energy transitions and exports, the power struggles between provincial, state, and federal governments. - Kyle Wyatt (Literary Review of Canada)