Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.

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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Main Author: Biehler, Dawn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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264 1 |a Seattle :  |b University of Washington Press,  |c [2013] 
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505 0 |a 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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520 |a 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 but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As the author shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. -- Jacket. 
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