Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats - Couverture rigide

Biehler, Dawn Day

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0295993014 ISBN 13 : 9780295993010

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dawn Biehler is associate professor in Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is author of Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats (University of Washington Press, 2013).

Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (UWP, 2005) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Georgia, 2015).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295993014
• ISBN 13: 9780295993010
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible