American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT

American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT / James E. McWilliams.

From the Publisher: The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man, Americans have fought to eradicate the "bugs" they have learned to hate. Inspired...

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Main Author: McWilliams, James E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Insect pests > Control > United States > History.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States.
Pesticides > Political aspects > United States.
Ethnoentomology > United States.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.
Ethnoentomology
Insect pests > Control
Pesticides > Environmental aspects
Bekämpfung
Insekten
Insektenbekämpfung > USA > Geschichte.
Insektizid > Umweltbelastung > USA > Geschichte.
Mensch > Insekten.
Insekten > Mensch.
Insekten.
Schädlingsbekämpfung.
Insektizid.
Insect pests.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
United States
USA
USA.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "The insect tribes still maintain their ground" : insects and early Americans
  • "There is no royal road to the destruction of bugs" : the rise of the professionals
  • "Let us conquer space" : breaking the plains and fighting the insects
  • "A great schemer" : Charles V. Riley and the broken promises of early insecticides
  • "Let us spray" : mosquitoes, war, and chemicals
  • "Vot iss de effidence?" : residues, regulations, and the politics of protecting insecticides
  • "Complaints are coming in" : a year in the life of an insecticide nation, 1938
  • "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up" : silent springs and loud protests.

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