Dawn Day Biehler is assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

• Foreword by William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction: History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests Part OneThe 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 Rats: Back-Alley Ecology in the Chemical AgePart TwoPersistence and Resistance in the Age of Ecology 5. The Ecology of Injustice: Rats in the Civil Rights Era 6. Integrating Urban Homes: Cockroaches and SurvivalEpilogue: The Persistence and Resurgence of Bedbugs NotesSelected Bibliography Index

"This valuable book will stir readers’ consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory. . . . Highly recommended."

Dawn Day Biehler is assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

• Foreword by William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction: History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests Part OneThe 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 Rats: Back-Alley Ecology in the Chemical AgePart TwoPersistence and Resistance in the Age of Ecology 5. The Ecology of Injustice: Rats in the Civil Rights Era 6. Integrating Urban Homes: Cockroaches and SurvivalEpilogue: The Persistence and Resurgence of Bedbugs NotesSelected Bibliography Index

"This valuable book will stir readers’ consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory. . . . Highly recommended."

Dawn Day Biehler is assistant professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

• Foreword by William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction: History, Ecology, and the Politics of Pests Part OneThe 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 Rats: Back-Alley Ecology in the Chemical AgePart TwoPersistence and Resistance in the Age of Ecology 5. The Ecology of Injustice: Rats in the Civil Rights Era 6. Integrating Urban Homes: Cockroaches and SurvivalEpilogue: The Persistence and Resurgence of Bedbugs NotesSelected Bibliography Index

"This valuable book will stir readers’ consciousness as it forces them to look at urban histories that have largely been less than savory. . . . Highly recommended."