The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction The Guardians of Paradise 1 Chapter 1 Waging War on the Insect Menace 12 Chapter 2 The Garden State Takes the Lead 35 Chapter 3 A Continental Crusade 58 Chapter 4 Public Health, Race, and Mosquitoes 80 Chapter 5 Widening the Campaign 103 Chapter 6 Advances and Retreats during the Great Depression 122 Chapter 7 Weapons of Mass Destruction 143 Chapter 8 The Postwar Era 167 Chapter 9 Discontent and Resistance 195 Epilogue The End of the Crusade 216 Notes 223 Index 255 ...