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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biehler, Dawn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Colección:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Temas:
Urban pests.
Pests > Control.
Urban health.
Social ecology.
Pest Control
Urban Health
Social Environment
Social Marginalization
Animaux et plantes nuisibles urbains.
Animaux et plantes nuisibles > Lutte contre.
Santé urbaine.
Écologie sociale.
pest control.
human ecology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.
Urban health
Social ecology
Pests > Control
Urban pests
Insectes des villes > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Rongeurs nuisibles > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Insectes nuisibles > Lutte contre > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Rongeurs > Lutte contre > États-Unis > 20e siècle.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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