Pests in the city : : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / / Dawn Day Biehler.
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| Superior document: | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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.