Pests in the city: flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats

History, ecology, and the politics of pests

The promises of modern pest control

Flies : agents of interconnection in Progressive Era cities

Bedbugs : creatures of community in modernizing cities

German cockroaches : permeable homes in the postwar era

Norway rats : back-alley ecology in the chemical age

Persistence and resistance in the age of ecology

The ecology of injustice : rats in the civil rights era

Integrating urban homes : cockroaches and survival

Epilogue: the persistence and resurgence of bedbugs.