Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.
- Biehler, Dawn.
- Date:
- [2013]
- Books
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Description
American cities have always created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequality, housing policy, and ideas about domestic space.
Publication/Creation
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Physical description
xviii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJGT.6.AA8-9Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780295993010
- 0295993014