Pests in the city [electronic resource] : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.
Material type: TextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental booksPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780295804866
- 0295804866
- 632/.6 23
- SB603.3 .B54 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History, ecology, and the politics of pests -- The promises of modern pest control -- Flies : agents of interconnection in progressive era cities -- Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities -- German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era -- Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age -- Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology -- The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era -- Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival -- Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.
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