Natives and exotics : World War II and environment in the southern Pacific / Judith A. Bennett.
Material type: TextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xxvi, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0824832655
- 9780824832650
- 0824833503
- 9780824833503
- United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Environmental aspects -- Oceania
- Natural resources -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
- Human ecology -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Political aspects -- Oceania
- Oceania -- Environmental conditions
- Oceania -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Relations -- Oceania
- Oceania -- Relations -- United States
- 940.531 22
- D767.9 .B46 2009
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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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