E-book
Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780295804866
- ISBN: 0295804866
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : illustrations.
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-308) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Urban pests Pests Urban pests TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General. Urban pests |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
