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

Informationen zum Autor Dawn Day Biehler. Foreword by William Cronon Klappentext From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City , Dawn Day Biehler 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, DC, 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 Biehler 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.Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9PFxLY7K4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by William Cronon¿ Acknowledgments¿ Introduction: History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests¿ Part One The Promises of Modern Pest Control¿ 1. Flies: Agents of Interconnection in Progressive Era Cities¿ 2. Bedbugs: Creatures of Community in Modernizing Cities¿ 3. German Cockroaches: Permeable Homes in the Postwar Erä 4. Norway Rats: Back-Alley Ecology in the Chemical Age Part Two Persistence and Resistance in the Age of Ecology 5. The Ecology of Injustice: Rats in the Civil Rights Era 6. Integrating Urban Homes: Cockroaches and Survival Epilogue: The Persistence and Resurgence of Bedbugs Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Day Biehler, Dawn Day/ Cronon Biehler
• Assisted by: Paul S Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2015
• EAN: 9780295994826
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99482-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Tierwelt: Schmetterlinge, Insekten und Spinnen: Sachbuch, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Nature, HISTORY / United States / General, NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban