Oh, rats!

A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing. Rats are creatures which ins...

This chapter examines the industrial spy, who represented the negative case for the auto workers' notions of exemplary manhood, of real union manhood, and of the manhood of the fig...

Epidemic typhus is now a rare disease, but previously it was worldwide in distribution. Typically epidemic typhus occurred during instances in which humans were forced to live in c...