TY  - BOOK
AU  - McWilliams,James E.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - American pests: the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT 
AV  - SB950.2.A1 M39 2008
U1  - 632/.70973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Insect pests
KW  - Control
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Ethnoentomology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index; "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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcsl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=908232
ER  -