Pests in the City

Foreword by William Cronon 

Acknowledgments 

Introduction: History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests 

Part One

The Promises of Modern Pest Control 

1. Flies: Agents of Interconnection in Progressive Era Cities 

2. Bedbugs: Creatures of Community in Modernizing Cities 

3. German Cockroaches: Permeable Homes in the Postwar Era 

4. Norway R...