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Natives and exotics : World War II and environment in the southern Pacific / Judith A. Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xxvi, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824832655
  • 9780824832650
  • 0824833503
  • 9780824833503
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.531 22
LOC classification:
  • D767.9 .B46 2009
Contents:
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 -- 1. Imagining Landscapes -- 2. Peopling the Southern Pacific -- 3. Diseased Environments -- Part II. Using Indigenous Resources -- 4. Local Resources: Living off Land and Sea -- 5. Taking Stock: Building for Battle -- 6. Resources for the Metropole: Trade for the Periphery -- 7. The Human Resource -- Part III. Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues -- 8. Paying for the Damages -- 9. Close Out: Quitting the Islands -- 10. Leavings on Landscape -- 11. Legacies and Visions -- Part IV. Embodying War's Environment -- 12. Remembering Place: The Use of Souvenirs -- 13. Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting -- Conclusion.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 940.531 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A471148B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 1. Imagining Landscapes -- 2. Peopling the Southern Pacific -- 3. Diseased Environments -- Part II. Using Indigenous Resources -- 4. Local Resources: Living off Land and Sea -- 5. Taking Stock: Building for Battle -- 6. Resources for the Metropole: Trade for the Periphery -- 7. The Human Resource -- Part III. Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues -- 8. Paying for the Damages -- 9. Close Out: Quitting the Islands -- 10. Leavings on Landscape -- 11. Legacies and Visions -- Part IV. Embodying War's Environment -- 12. Remembering Place: The Use of Souvenirs -- 13. Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting -- Conclusion.

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