Biehler, Dawn.
Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler. - 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations. - Weyerhaeuser environmental books . - Weyerhaeuser environmental book. .
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.
9780295804866 (e-book)
Urban pests.
Pests.
Electronic books.
SB603.3 / .B54 2013eb
632/.6
Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler. - 1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations. - Weyerhaeuser environmental books . - Weyerhaeuser environmental book. .
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.
9780295804866 (e-book)
Urban pests.
Pests.
Electronic books.
SB603.3 / .B54 2013eb
632/.6