The fire ant wars [electronic resource] : nature, science, and public policy in twentieth-century America / Joshua Blu Buhs.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: x, 216 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0226079813 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226079821 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- SB945.F535 B84 2004eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.