内容简介
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本书立足历史学，借鉴社会学、人类学、医学、生物学等相关知识，辅以几十幅难得一见的史料图片，深刻剖析害虫承载的历史意义，内容发人深省。
历史学教授丽莎·T.萨拉索恩文笔精妙，以幽默、通俗又充满《1984》式讽刺的文风，讲述了害虫与人的诸多关系，从而引导读者体悟文明荒谬、认识人性脆弱、反思群体命运。
害虫在地球上生存的历史远远早于人类，它们的身份却被人类定义。作者在书中详细讲述了从早期现代社会至今的400多年的时间中，害虫如何从常见寄生虫到被人类深恶痛绝的对象、从神旨的代表到传染病的传播者的身份转变；它们如何在讲究体面的现代社会中轻松打破阶层壁垒，破坏文明秩序，引发人心底的恐惧，最终成为社会阶层的标志、污名化的标签。
正如作者在书中所言，无论是种族主义影响下的他者带来的人口过剩的恐惧，还是对现代社会孤立状态的倦怠，老鼠尖锐地反映着我们的恐惧和我们对自己的映照。
作者简介
丽莎·T.萨拉索恩是美国俄勒冈州立大学历史学荣誉教授。
著有《伽桑秋的伦理学：机械论宇宙中的自由》《玛格丽特·卡文迪什的自然哲学：科学革命时期的理性与幻想》。
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Based on history, this book draws on sociology, anthropology, medicine, biology and other relevant knowledge, supplemented by dozens of rare historical pictures, deeply analyzes the historical significance of pests, and the content is thought-provoking.
History professor Lisa T. Sarasone writes about the many relationships between pests and people in a humorous, popular and 1984 style of satire, leading readers to understand the absurdity of civilization, recognize the fragility of human nature, and reflect on the fate of groups.
Pests have existed on the earth long before humans, but their identity has been defined by humans. In the book, the author describes in detail how in the 400-year period from the early modern society to the present, pests have changed from common parasites to objects deeply hated by mankind, from representatives of divine will to carriers of infectious diseases. How they easily break down class barriers in a modern respectability society, destroy civilized order, trigger fear in people's hearts, and eventually become a sign of social class and stigmatized label.
As the author argues in the book, whether it's the fear of overpopulation brought about by the other under the influence of racism, or the burnout of isolation in modern society, rats are a sharp reflection of our fears and our reflections of ourselves.
About the author
Lisa T. Sarasone is professor emeritus of history at Oregon State University.
He is the author of the Ethics of Gassancho: Freedom in a Mechanical Universe and the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fantasy in the Age of the Scientific Revolution.
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