Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats

Contents

Contents Foreword by William Cronon ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests 3 Part One The Promises of Modern Pest Control 13 1. Flies Agents of Interconnection in Progressive Era Cities 27 2. Bedbugs Creatures of Community in Modernizing Cities 55 3. German Cockroaches Permeable Homes in the Postwar Era 83 4. Norway Rats Back-Alley Ecology in the Chemical Age 111 Part Two Persistence and Resistance in the Age of Ecology 139 5. The Ecology of Injustice Rats in the Civil Rights Era 149 6. Integrating Urban Homes Cockroaches and Survival 177 Epilogue The Persistence and Resurgence of Bedbugs 205 Notes 217 Selected Bibliography 279 Index 309 Illustrations follow pages 15 and 140 ...