Pests in the City
Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
||Biehler, Dawn Day|
||Sutter, Paul S.|
|Series title:||Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.|
|Publication Date:||Sep 2013|
| Publisher:||University of Washington Press|
| Book Format:||Hardback|
|List Price:||USD $34.95|
| Book Description: |
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...