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Zusatztext Richard S. Newman, in his Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present, manages to retell the story in a way that is fresh and imbues Love Canal, as place and symbol, with new importance for understanding the history of citizen activism, environmentalism, and environmental regulation in the United States ... essential reading. Informationen zum Autor Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. A native of Buffalo, New York, he is the author and/or editor of five previous books on abolitionism, African American history, and environmentalism, including The Palgrave Environmental Reader and Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. For fifteen years, he taught environmental history at Rochester Institute of Technology. Klappentext A history of the Love Canal region from the nation's founding and the utopian city planned for the Niagara area to the building of the region's chemistry industry to the environmental disaster at Love Canal and its aftermath. Zusammenfassung A history of the Love Canal region from the nation's founding and the utopian city planned for the Niagara area to the building of the region's chemistry industry to the environmental disaster at Love Canal and its aftermath. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Of Burial Mounds and Toxic Tombs Part One Love Canal in the Era of Great Dreams Ch 1 Developing Niagara, Developing Love Canal Ch 2 Building Love's Canal Ch 3 Master of the Chemical Machine Ch 4 Worlds Collide at Love Canal Part Two Love Canal in the Era of Environmentalism Ch 5 The Problem at Love Canal Ch 6 Growing Protest at Love Canal Ch 7 Widening the Circle of Influence Part Three Learning from Love Canal Ch 8 Love Canal Lessons Ch 9 Resettling Love Canal? Epilogue Memory and Health at Love Canal Notes Bibliography Index ...
