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

Bennett, Judith A. 1944- (Author).

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0824863712
ISBN: 9780824863715
ISBN: 1441619984
ISBN: 9781441619983
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 439 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User OldControl:muse9780824863715
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.