| Description |
xviii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-308) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Urban pests.
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| ISBN |
9780295993010 hardback alkaline paper |
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0295993014 hardback alkaline paper |
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