{"product_id":"fresh-kills-9780231189491","title":"Fresh Kills","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh Kills\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended slight, the premiere historian of garbage. He possesses as thorough a knowledge of the many relevant secondary literatures as anyone. One could not find a more appropriate scholar to take up this topic. -- David Stradling, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh Kills\u003c\/i\u003e frames Staten Island’s iconic landfill as not just a repository for solid waste but also a monument to consumer culture. This is an immensely readable and valuable book by a distinguished scholar of environmental history. -- Michael Rawson, author of \u003ci\u003eEden on the Charles: The Making of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelosi tells the story of the dump that ate New York with panache, rescuing this erstwhile salt marsh from the late-night comedians and, in the process, telling us something deeply important and troubling about postwar American capitalism. -- Ted Steinberg, author of \u003ci\u003eGotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the pioneers of urban environmental history gives us a meticulously researched and sweeping narrative of New York, Staten Island, and the landfill known as Fresh Kills, revealing a seamy underside of modern prosperity, mass consumption, and New York politics.  The maps and illustrations are marvelous. -- J.R. McNeill, author of \u003ci\u003eSomething New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh Kills\u003c\/i\u003e is also a piece about mourning the scars in our landscapes engineered to harbor the remnants of modern mass consumption, and a subtle warning that we should not avert our gaze from them. It is Martin V. Melosi at his best. * Gotham Center for New York City History *\u003cbr\u003eThe landfill and the park now being constructed atop it are—like Melosi’s fine book—important reminders that we cannot\u003cbr\u003eentirely forget or be free of what we discard. * Enterprise and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Dilemma of Consuming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Backdrop\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Island City\u003cbr\u003e2. Wasting Away\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Staten Island: Borough of Last Resort\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The Quarantine\u003cbr\u003e4. The Garbage War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Seeking a Disposal Sink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Go-Away Society\u003cbr\u003e6. One Best Way\u003cbr\u003e7. Futile Protests\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Living with and Surviving the Landfill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. The Burning Question\u003cbr\u003e9. The End of Isolation\u003cbr\u003e10. An Environmental Turn\u003cbr\u003e11. Fiscal Crisis and Disposal Dilemma\u003cbr\u003e12. Fresh Kills at Midlife\u003cbr\u003e13. Barge to Nowhere\u003cbr\u003e14. A New Plan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: The Road to Closure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Secession\u003cbr\u003e16. Closure\u003cbr\u003e17. Now What?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: The Post-Closure Era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e19. Regeneration\u003cbr\u003e20. Crossroads\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524655227223,"sku":"9780231189491","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231189491.jpg?v=1731857632","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fresh-kills-9780231189491","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}