American Pests : : The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT / / James McWilliams.
The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man, Americans have fought to eradicate the "bugs" they have learned to hate. Inspired by the still-revolut...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. "the dunghill of men's passions": THE INSECT PARADOX
- 1. "the insect tribes still maintain their ground": INSECTS AND EARLY AMERICANS
- 2. "there is no Royal Road to the destruction of bugs": THE RISE OF THE PROFESSIONALS
- 3. "Let us conquer space": BREAKING THE PLAINS AND FIGHTING THE INSECTS
- 4. "a great schemer": CHARLES V. RILEY AND THE BROKEN PROMISES OF EARLY INSECTICIDES
- 5. "let us spray": MOSQUITOES, WAR, AND CHEMICALS
- 6. "vot iss de effi dence?": RESIDUES, REGULATIONS, AND THE POLITICS OF PROTECTING INSECTICIDES
- 7. "complaints are coming in": A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AN INSECTICIDE NATION, 1938
- 8. "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up": SILENT SPRINGS AND LOUD PROTESTS
- Epilogue. "Some very learned men are the greatest fools in the world": IN PRAISE OF LOCALISM
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index