Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats /
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In this book, the author argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities b...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press
[2013]
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| Cyfres: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvcwnxbp |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Introduction : 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.