Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats /

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Autor Principal: Biehler, Dawn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.