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Love Canal : a toxic history from Colonial times to the present / Richard S. Newman.
LIBRA TD181.N72 N51355 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Richard S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pollution--New York (State)--Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area--History.
- Pollution.
- Hazardous waste site remediation--New York (State)--Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area--History.
- Hazardous waste site remediation.
- Environmental conditions.
- History.
- Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)--History.
- Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--Environmental conditions--History.
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Love Canal in the Era of Great Dreams
- 1 Past as Prologue: Developing Niagara Before Love Canal 17
- 2 Building Love's Canal 36
- 3 The Master of the Chemical Machine: The Rise of Hooker 53
- 4 Worlds Collide at Love's Canal 74
- Part 2 Love Canal in the Era of Environmentalism
- 5 A Toxic Subdivision: The Problem at Love Canal 99
- 6 Growing Protest at Love Canal 144
- 7 Widening the Circle of Influence 174
- Part 3 Learning From Love Canal
- 8 In the End Is the Beginning: Love Canal Lessons 199
- 9 Creative Destruction: Resettling Love Canal and Its Discontents 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195374834
- 0195374835
- OCLC:
- 892895240
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