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American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT / James E. McWilliams.

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Main Author: McWilliams, James E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Pesticides > Law and legislation > United States.
Insect pests > Control > United States > History.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States.
Pesticides > Political aspects > United States.
Ethnoentomology > United States.
Table of 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.

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