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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]

1 online resource (361 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780295804866 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780295993010 (cloth : alk. paper)

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Print version: Biehler, Dawn. Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] xviii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Weyerhaeuser environmental book ISBN 9780295993010

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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