Natives and Exotics : : World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific / / Judith A. Bennett.
Ambitious in its scope and scale, this environmental history of World War II ranges over rear bases and operational fronts from Bora Bora to New Guinea, providing a lucid analysis of resource exploitation, entangled wartime politics, and human perceptions of the vast Oceanic environment. Although th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 32 illus., 13 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Currency, Measurement, and Place-Names
- Abbreviations
- Preface: Was the Environment a Stage or an Actor?
- Prologue: The Great Ocean: How Others Tried to Ride Its Waves
- Part I: Encountering Pacific Environments
- CHAPTER 1: Imagining Landscapes
- CHAPTER 2: Peopling the Southern Pacific
- CHAPTER 3: Diseased Environments
- Part II: Using Indigenous Resources
- CHAPTER 4: Local Resources
- CHAPTER 5: Taking Stock
- CHAPTER 6: Resources for the Metropole
- CHAPTER 7: The Human Resource
- Part III: Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues
- CHAPTER 8: Paying for the Damages
- CHAPTER 9: Close Out
- CHAPTER 10: Leavings on Landscape
- CHAPTER 11: Legacies and Visions
- Part IV: Embodying War's Environment
- CHAPTER 12: Remembering Place
- CHAPTER 13: Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author