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Perils of progress : environmental disasters in the twentieth century Cover Image Book Book

Perils of progress : environmental disasters in the twentieth century

Jenks, Andrew L. (Author).

Summary: "This book inserts the often overlooked costs of modern industrial and urban development back into the story of modern world history. It uses four case studies to examine the political, social, and ecological fallout of technological and toxic-waste disasters in the twentieth century" --back cover.

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  • ISBN: 9780136038023 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0136038026 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 159 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Prentice Hall, c2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Minamata Disaster and the True Costs of Japanese Modernization -- Love Canal and the Law of Unintended Consequences -- The Bhopal Gas Tragedy : A Perfect Storm of Injustice -- The Techno-Politics of Disaster : Chernobyl and the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- Epilogue: making connections.

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