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.
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United States. Army fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Environmental aspects -- Oceania
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Natural resources -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
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Human ecology -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Oceania -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Political aspects -- Oceania
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Buddhism and politics
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Ecology
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Human ecology
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International relations
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Natural resources
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Social conditions
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Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945
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Soziale Situation
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Natürliche Ressourcen
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Internationale Politik
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Umwelt
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Umweltgefährdung
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Oceania -- Environmental conditions
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Oceania -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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United States -- Relations -- Oceania
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Oceania -- Relations -- United States
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Oceania
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781441619983 |
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1441619984 |
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9780824863715 |
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0824863712 |
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