American pests
Subtitle: the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT
By: James E. McWilliams.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231139427; 9780231511360
Subjects: Insect pests -- Control -- United States -- History; Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- United States; Pesticides -- Political aspects -- United States; Ethnoentomology -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The insect tribes still maintain their ground": insects and early Americans; title: "There is no royal road to the destruction of bugs": the rise of the professionals; title: "Let us conquer space": breaking the plains and fighting the insects; title: "A great schemer": Charles V. Riley and the broken promises of early insecticides; title: "Let us spray": mosquitoes, war, and chemicals; title: "Vot iss de effidence?": residues, regulations, and the politics of protecting insecticides; title: "Complaints are coming in": a year in the life of an insecticide nation, 1938; title: "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up": silent springs and loud protests.