Natives and exotics : World War II and environment in the southern Pacific /

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"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. Altho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, Judith A., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009.
Temas:
United States. > Army > History > World War, 1939-1945.
United States. > Army
1900-1999
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.
Ressources naturelles > Océanie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Océanie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect politique > Océanie.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Buddhism and politics
Ecology
Human ecology
International relations
Natural resources
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Social conditions
Pazifikkrieg > 1941-1945
Soziale Situation
Natürliche Ressourcen
Internationale Politik
Umwelt
Umweltgefährdung
Oceania > Environmental conditions.
Oceania > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Relations > Oceania.
Oceania > Relations > United States.
Océanie > Conditions environnementales.
Océanie > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Océanie > Relations > États-Unis.
Oceania
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imagining landscapes
  • Peopling the southern Pacific
  • Diseased environments
  • Local resources: living off land and sea
  • Taking stock: building for battle
  • Resources for the metropole: trade for the periphery
  • The human resource
  • Paying for the damages
  • Close out: quitting the islands
  • Leavings on landscape
  • Legacies and visions
  • Remembering place: the use of souvenirs
  • Places of memory, sites of forgetting.

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