Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats

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ISBN: 0295993014
ISBN: 9780295993010
ISBN: 0295804866
ISBN: 9780295804866
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]

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.