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

Author/creator Bennett, Judith A., 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoHonolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxxvi, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009000222
ISBN9780824832650 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN0824832655 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780824833503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0824833503 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks D767.9 .B46 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold