Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.