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OverviewIn 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 through the area's broader landscape, detailing the way this ever-contentious region has been used, altered, and understood from the colonial era to the present day. Newman journeys into colonial land use battles between Native Americans and European settlers, 19th-century utopian city planning, the rise of the American chemical industry in the 20th century, the transformation of environmental activism in the 1970s, and the memory of environmental disasters in our own time.In an era of hydrofracking and renewed concern about nuclear waste disposal, Love Canal remains relevant. It is only by starting at the very beginning of the site's environmental history that we can understand the road to a hazardous waste crisis in the 1970s-and to the global environmental justice movement it sparked. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard S. Newman (Professor of History, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780195374834ISBN 10: 0195374835 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 26 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsA remarkable new take on American history, this book shows both the historical depth of our environmental crisis, and the personal depth of the struggle against it. -Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Finally the environmental activists of Love Canal have found their historic and heroic voices. Newman's study provides a stunning perspective on those whose daily lives made Rachel Carson's 'fable for tomorrow' a horrific reality. -Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature In this groundbreaking book, Richard Newman, one of the foremost scholars of American reform movements, tells the amazing story of Love Canal from utopian dream and dystopian nightmare to the global environmental justice movement. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, it should be req uired reading for anyone interested in the American condition. -John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men A remarkable new take on American history, this book shows both the historical depth of our environmental crisis, and the personal depth of the struggle against it. -Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet Finally the environmental activists of Love Canal have found their historic and heroic voices. Newman's study provides a stunning perspective on those whose daily lives made Rachel Carson's 'fable for tomorrow' a horrific reality. -Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature In this groundbreaking book, Richard Newman, one of the foremost scholars of American reform movements, tells the amazing story of Love Canal from utopian dream and dystopian nightmare to the global environmental justice movement. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, it should be req uired reading for anyone interested in the American condition. -John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men Mr. Newman's Love Canal is a superb history of what happened before, during and after the weeks in 1978 when the area made national headlines... His book is a wonderful study in 'contested memories' and a sophisticated addition to American environmental history. -The Wall Street Journal Love Canal challenges readers to think about long-term structural problems that are place-specific and deeply historical...[Newman] succeeds in revealing the public health fiasco as a powerful example of persistent citizen activism in the face of government complacency. --Science Author InformationRichard 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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