Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Plant and Insect Immigrants 1
4. 1 San José Scale: Contested Origins at the Turn of the Century 15
5. 2 Early Yellow Peril vs. Western Menace: Chestnut Blight, Citrus Canker, and PQN 37 49
6. 3 Liable Insects at the US- Mexico Border 83
7. 4 Contagious Yellow Peril: Diseased Bodies and the Threat of Little Brown Men 100
8. 5 Pestilence in Paradise: Invasives in Hawai‘i 114
9. 6 Japanese Beetle Menace: Discovery of the Beetle 139
10. 7 Infiltrating Perils: A Race against Ownership, Contamination, and Miscegenation 163
11. 8 Yellow Peril No More? National and Naturalized Enemies during World War II 180
12. Conclusion: Toward a Multi(horti)cultural Global Society 209
13. Acknowledgments 225
14. Notes 231
15. Bibliography 277
16. Index 291