American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT

James E. McWilliams

July, 2008
Cloth, 312 pages, 35 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13942-7
$24.95 / £14.95

Web Features:

• Listen to an interview with McWilliams on KUT radio in Austin, TX
• Take the Pesky Quiz and test your knowledge of the history of American attempts to wipe out insects.
• Read an excerpt from book’s epilogue, “In Praise of Localism,” posted on Celsias.

Related Subjects

• American History
• Environmental Policy
• General Science

About the Author

James E. McWilliams is an associate professor of history at Texas State University-San Marcos and a recent fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, among other publications, and he is the author of A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America and Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Society in Early Massachusetts.

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