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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dawn Day Biehler , William Cronon , Paul S. SutterPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780295994826ISBN 10: 0295994827 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 16 February 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword 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 Era 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 IndexReviewsBiehler demystifies how pest populations have been systematically mapped onto marginalized populations and illustrates a history that has been largely neglected...the book is accessible to non-professional readers as it is a quick and simple read that is nevertheless extremely informative. -- Mia Renauld Human Ecology This valuable book will stir readers' consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory... Highly recommended. Choice In her meticulous and thoughtful analysis of urban environmental injustice, Biehler deftly illustrates how these pests continue to undermine aspirations for modern and healthy living conditions for all. -- Frederick R. Davis Science As long as you do not read this book in your kitchen, your bedroom, your bathroom, or really anywhere that you actually live or work, you will be fine. All kidding aside, Dawn Day Biehler's Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats is not for the squeamish or for those prone to the heebie-jeebies; what it is, though, is a fascinating exploration of the entanglements between urban life, class, race, and gender identities, and nonhumans classified as pests. -- Julie Urbanik H-Net [This] exemplary work of interdisciplinary history ... demonstrates how the ecologies of these pests and the efforts to eliminate them were intertwined with social tensions and political struggles throughout the twentieth century. -- Joanna Dyl Journal of Interdisciplinary History This valuable book will stir readers' consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory... Highly recommended. Choice In her meticulous and thoughtful analysis of urban environmental injustice, Biehler deftly illustrates how these pests continue to undermine aspirations for modern and healthy living conditions for all. -- Frederick R. Davis Science As long as you do not read this book in your kitchen, your bedroom, your bathroom, or really anywhere that you actually live or work, you will be fine. All kidding aside, Dawn Day Biehler's Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats is not for the squeamish or for those prone to the heebie-jeebies; what it is, though, is a fascinating exploration of the entanglements between urban life, class, race, and gender identities, and nonhumans classified as pests. -- Julie Urbanik H-Net [This] exemplary work of interdisciplinary history... demonstrates how the ecologies of these pests and the efforts to eliminate them were intertwined with social tensions and political struggles throughout the twentieth century. -- Joanna Dyl Journal of Interdisciplinary History Biehler demystifies how pest populations have been systematically mapped onto marginalized populations and illustrates a history that has been largely neglected...the book is accessible to non-professional readers as it is a quick and simple read that is nevertheless extremely informative. -- Mia Renauld Human Ecology This valuable book will stir readers' consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory .Highly recommended. - Choice, March 2014 """This valuable book will stir readers’ consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory. . . . Highly recommended."" * Choice * ""In her meticulous and thoughtful analysis of urban environmental injustice, Biehler deftly illustrates how these pests continue to undermine aspirations for modern and healthy living conditions for all."" -- Frederick R. Davis * Science * ""As long as you do not read this book in your kitchen, your bedroom, your bathroom, or really anywhere that you actually live or work, you will be fine. All kidding aside, Dawn Day Biehler’s Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats is not for the squeamish or for those prone to the heebie-jeebies; what it is, though, is a fascinating exploration of the entanglements between urban life, class, race, and gender identities, and nonhumans classified as pests."" -- Julie Urbanik * H-Net * ""[This] exemplary work of interdisciplinary history . . . demonstrates how the ecologies of these pests and the efforts to eliminate them were intertwined with social tensions and political struggles throughout the twentieth century."" -- Joanna Dyl * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * ""Biehler demystifies how pest populations have been systematically mapped onto marginalized populations and illustrates a history that has been largely neglected...the book is accessible to non-professional readers as it is a quick and simple read that is nevertheless extremely informative."" -- Mia Renauld * Human Ecology *" Author InformationDawn Day Biehler is assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 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