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Author Newman, Richard S., author.

Title Love Canal : a toxic history from Colonial times to the present / Richard S. Newman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Contents Cover ; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Epigraph ; Contents; Preface/Acknowledgments ; Key Abbreviations; Second Half Title Page ; Introduction: Of Burial Mounds and Toxic Tombs ; PART ONE: LOVE CANAL IN THE ERA OF GREAT DREAMS ; 1. Past as Prologue: Developing Niagara Before Love Canal ; 2. Building Love's Canal
3. The Master of the Chemical Machine: The Rise of Hooker 4. Worlds Collide at Love's Canal ; PART TWO: LOVE CANAL IN THE ERA OF ENVIRONMENTALISM ; 5. A Toxic Subdivision: The Problem at Love Canal ; 6. Growing Protest at Love Canal ; 7. Widening the Circle of Influence
PART THREE: LEARNING FROM LOVE CANAL 8. In the End Is the Beginning: Love Canal Lessons ; 9. Creative Destruction: Resettling Love Canal and Its Discontents ; Epilogue: Haunted Love ; Notes ; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 27, 2016)
Subject Pollution -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area -- History
Hazardous waste site remediation -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls Metropolitain Area -- History
Environmental Pollution -- history
Hazardous Waste Sites -- history
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Ecology
Hazardous waste site remediation
Pollution
SUBJECT Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) -- History
New York (State) -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject New York (State)
New York (State) -- Niagara Falls -- Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199705412
0199705410
9780190262846
0190262842