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Six-legged soldiers : using insects as weapons of war / Jeffrey A. Lockwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological warfare.
- Insects as carriers of disease.
- Agroterrorism--Prevention.
- Agroterrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 377 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. A remarkable story of human ingenuity - and brutality - 'Six-Legged Soldiers' is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.
- Contents:
- PART 1. STINGING DEFEATS AND VENOMOUS VICTORIES: 1. Bee bombs and wasp warheads ; 2. Toxic tactics and terrors ; 3. Insects as tools of torture
- PART 2. VECTORS OF DEATH: 4. Horseshoes and hand grenades ; 5. The victories of the vectors ; 6. A most uncivil war ; 7. All's lousy on the Eastern Front
- PART 3. BRINGING FEVER AND FAMINE TO A WORLD AT WAR: 8. A momentous metamorphosis ; 9. Entomological evil ; 10. Japan's fleas and flies ; 11. Japan's pleas and lies ; 12. Beetle bombs ; 13. Waking the slumbering giants
- PART 4. COLD-BLOODED FIGHTERS OF THE COLD WAR: 14. Korea's hailstorms of hexapods ; 15. A swam of accusations ; 16. An imaginary menagerie? ; 18. Yankee (and Vietnamese) ingenuity ; 19. Cuban missiles vs. American arthropods ; 20. A tiny terrorist in Castro's crops
- PART 5. THE FUTURE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE: 21. Medflies, fruits, and nuts ; 22. Fear on the farm ; 23. Wimpy warmups and real deals ; 24. Six-legged guardian angels ; 25. Insect cyborgs and roboflies ; 26. "Vigilant and ready"?
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-360) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771629-6
- 1-281-72396-7
- 9786611723965
- 0-19-971560-2
- OCLC:
- 476244855
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