Love Canal
A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
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. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists soon found that they were engaged in a far larger battle over the meaning of America's industrial past and its environmental future. 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 t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-970541-2
- EAN: 9780199705412
- Produktnummer: 29057888
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 27'070 KB
- Abbildungen: 25 illus.
Über den 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.
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