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

Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 439 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 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 Summary "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 the war's physical impact proved significant and oftentimes enduring, this study shows that the tropical environment offered its own challenges: Unfamiliar tides left landing craft stranded; unseen microbes carrying endemic diseases disabled thousands of troops. Weather, terrain, plants, animals--all played an active role as enemy or ally. At the heart of Natives and Exotics is the author's analysis of the changing visions and perceptions of the environment, not only among the millions of combatants, but also among the Islands' peoples and their colonial administrations in wartime and beyond."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945. SUBJECT United States. Army fast Subject 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 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 SUBJECT Oceania -- Environmental conditions Oceania -- Social conditions -- 20th century United States -- Relations -- Oceania Oceania -- Relations -- United States Subject Oceania United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441619983 1441619984 9780824863715 0824863712

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