The Mosquito Crusades : A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day.
Title:
The Mosquito Crusades : A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day.
Author:
Patterson, Gordon.
ISBN:
9780813547008
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Series:
Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Guardians of Paradise -- Chapter 1: Waging War on the Insect Menace -- Chapter 2: The Garden State Takes the Lead -- Chapter 3: A Continental Crusade -- Chapter 4: Public Health, Race, and Mosquitoes -- Chapter 5: Widening the Campaign -- Chapter 6: Advances and Retreats during the Great Depression -- Chapter 7: Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Chapter 8: The Postwar Era -- Chapter 9: Discontent and Resistance -- Epilogue: The End of the Crusade -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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