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American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT / James E. McWilliams.
LIBRA SB950.2.A1 M39 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, James E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insect pests--Control--United States--History.
- Insect pests.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Pesticides.
- Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
- Ethnoentomology.
- Insect pests--Control.
- History.
- United States.
- Pesticides--Political aspects--United States.
- Ethnoentomology--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- "The insect tribes still maintain their ground": insects and early Americans
- "There is no royal road to the destruction of bugs": the rise of the professionals
- "Let us conquer space": breaking the plains and fighting the insects
- "A great schemer": Charles V. Riley and the broken promises of early insecticides
- "Let us spray": mosquitoes, war, and chemicals
- "Vot iss de effidence?": residues, regulations, and the politics of protecting insecticides
- "Complaints are coming in": a year in the life of an insecticide nation, 1938
- "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up": silent springs and loud protests.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231139427
- 023113942X
- 9780231511360
- 0231511361
- OCLC:
- 187394546
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