The fire ant wars
Subtitle: nature, science, and public policy in twentieth-century America
By: Joshua Blu Buhs.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Fire ants -- Control -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Fire ants -- Control -- Environmental aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Insecticides -- Environmental aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Telling the story of the ill-fated campaigns to eradicate the fire ant from American soil, this is also the history of changing attitudes to nature, to science and a reconsideration of the place of humankind in the natural world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: From South America to the American South, 1900-1950; title: Grins a prohibitive fracture, 1945-1957; title: Fire ants, from savage to invincible, 1957-1972; title: The fire ant wars, 1958-1983; title: The practice of nature, 1978-2000.