Bibliograph

Love Canal, a toxic history from Colonial times to the present, Richard S. Newman

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Love Canal, a toxic history from Colonial times to the present, Richard S. Newman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Love Canal

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

892895240

Responsibility statement

Richard S. Newman

Sub title

a toxic history from Colonial times to the present

Summary

"In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst--a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. The Love Canal protest movement inaugurated the era of grassroots environmentalism, spawning new anti-toxics laws and new models of ecological protest. Historian Richard S. Newman examines the Love Canal crisis through the area's boarder landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day."--Inside cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Of burial mounds and toxic tombs -- Part 1. Love Canal in the era of great dreams. Past as prologue : developing Niagara before Love Canal ; Building Love's canal ; The master of the chemical machine : the rise of Hooker ; Worlds collide at Love's canal -- Part 2. Love Canal in the era of environmentalism. A toxic subdivision : the problem at Love Canal ; Growing protest at Love Canal ; Widening the circle of influence -- Part 3. Learning from Love Canal. In the end is the beginning : Love Canal lessons ; Creative destruction : resettling Love Canal and its discontents -- Epilogue: Haunted Love

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