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Author Buhs, Joshua Blu.

Title The fire ant wars [electronic resource] : nature, science, and public policy in twentieth-century America / Joshua Blu Buhs.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 216 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.
Contents From South America to the American South, 1900-1950 -- Grins a prohibitive fracture, 1945-1957 -- Fire ants, from savage to invincible, 1957-1972 -- The fire ant wars, 1958-1983 -- The practice of nature, 1978-2000.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Fire ants -- Control -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Fire ants -- Control -- Environmental aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Insecticides -- Environmental aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226079813 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226079821 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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