Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.

By: Biehler, DawnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental bookPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780295804866Subject(s): Urban pests | PestsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats.DDC classification: 632/.6 LOC classification: SB603.3 | .B54 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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