Elizabeth D Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 2313416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth D Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum |
| SIGNATURE | BLUM E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Troy University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Daybreak
From Environmental Loss to Resistance
Razing Kids
In Razing Kids, Jeffrey C. Sanders aptly demonstrates how adults used rhetoric about children and the environment to express concerns about America's future. Using specific case studies centered in the West, Sanders cleverly organizes the book chronologically by events that follow both the growth of environmental problems and baby boom kids from birth to adulthood.Focusing first on concerns about young children, Sanders examines the development o…
Radiation Nation
In Radiation Nation Natasha Zaretsky deftly uses the March 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island (Tmi) nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as a window onto the development of conservative politics. Zaretsky convincingly asserts that “the culture of disassociation” crafted by the nuclear industry to separate the destructive power of nuclear weapons from the domesticated power of nuclear energy shattered after the Tmi accident. …
Miles A. Powell. Vanishing America
Environmentalism has often been seen as a bastion of liberal ideology. Miles A. Powell’s Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation, however, traces a dark and disturbing origin story of conservation, one of the mainstays of the environmental movement. Powell seeks to untangle connections between a century of conservation language, fears about the extinction of animals and white masculinity, immigration r…
Ellen Griffith Spears. Baptized in PCBs
In Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, Ellen Griffith Spears skillfully weaves narratives about the legacy of racial injustice, corporate power, the militarization of society, and the control of knowledge into a vivid cautionary tale. Spears traces the history of Anniston, Alabama, beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. With aggressive New South boosters, and as World War I heated up, Anniston gain…
Love Canal Revisited
Love Canal Revisited tells of a signature moment in the history of American environmentalism: the crisis over chemical pollution for the residents of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The short story of this community is well known: residents of this lower-middle-class community discovered chemicals leaching into their basements and forming puddles in their yards. Children came down with rar…
The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness
Garbage Wars
Book Review| February 01 2004 Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Elizabeth Blum Elizabeth Blum Troy State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (1): 178–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.178 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Garbage Wars
Power, Danger, and Control
In 1979, along with several other women, Patricia Reaux led her Houston neighborhood in a fight against a local landfill (Blum 284-335)
Love Canal Revisited
Love Canal Revisited tells of a signature moment in the history of American environmentalism: the crisis over chemical pollution for the residents of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The short story of this community is well known: residents of this lower-middle-class community discovered chemicals leaching into their basements and forming puddles in their yards. Children came down with rar…
Power, Danger, and Control
In 1979, along with several other women, Patricia Reaux led her Houston neighborhood in a fight against a local landfill (Blum 284-335)
Garbage Wars
Book Review| February 01 2004 Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Elizabeth Blum Elizabeth Blum Troy State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (1): 178–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.178 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Power, Danger, and Control
In 1979, along with several other women, Patricia Reaux led her Houston neighborhood in a fight against a local landfill (Blum 284-335)
Garbage Wars
Book Review| February 01 2004 Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago Elizabeth Blum Elizabeth Blum Troy State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (1): 178–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.178 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Garbage Wars
The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness
Love Canal Revisited
Love Canal Revisited tells of a signature moment in the history of American environmentalism: the crisis over chemical pollution for the residents of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The short story of this community is well known: residents of this lower-middle-class community discovered chemicals leaching into their basements and forming puddles in their yards. Children came down with rar…
Ellen Griffith Spears. Baptized in PCBs
In Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, Ellen Griffith Spears skillfully weaves narratives about the legacy of racial injustice, corporate power, the militarization of society, and the control of knowledge into a vivid cautionary tale. Spears traces the history of Anniston, Alabama, beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. With aggressive New South boosters, and as World War I heated up, Anniston gain…
Miles A. Powell. Vanishing America
Environmentalism has often been seen as a bastion of liberal ideology. Miles A. Powell’s Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation, however, traces a dark and disturbing origin story of conservation, one of the mainstays of the environmental movement. Powell seeks to untangle connections between a century of conservation language, fears about the extinction of animals and white masculinity, immigration r…
Radiation Nation
In Radiation Nation Natasha Zaretsky deftly uses the March 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island (Tmi) nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as a window onto the development of conservative politics. Zaretsky convincingly asserts that “the culture of disassociation” crafted by the nuclear industry to separate the destructive power of nuclear weapons from the domesticated power of nuclear energy shattered after the Tmi accident. …
From Environmental Loss to Resistance
Razing Kids
In Razing Kids, Jeffrey C. Sanders aptly demonstrates how adults used rhetoric about children and the environment to express concerns about America's future. Using specific case studies centered in the West, Sanders cleverly organizes the book chronologically by events that follow both the growth of environmental problems and baby boom kids from birth to adulthood.Focusing first on concerns about young children, Sanders examines the development o…
Daybreak
History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)