Love Canal
Subtitle: a toxic history from Colonial times to the present
By: Richard S. Newman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780195374834
Subjects: Hazardous waste site remediation; Environmental conditions; Pollution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: of burial mounds and toxic tombs; title: Past as prologue: developing Niagara before Love Canal; title: Building Love's canal; title: The master of the chemical machine: the rise of Hooker; title: Worlds collide at Love's canal; title: A toxic subdivision: the problem at Love Canal; title: Growing protest at Love Canal; title: Widening the circle of influence; title: In the end is the beginning: Love Canal lessons; title: Creative destruction: resettling Love Canal and its discontents.