Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific 9780824863715

Ambitious in its scope and scale, this environmental history of World War II ranges over rear bases and operational fron

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Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific
 9780824863715

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Currency, Measurement, and Place-Names
Abbreviations
Preface: Was the Environment a Stage or an Actor?
Prologue: The Great Ocean: How Others Tried to Ride Its Waves
Part I: Encountering Pacific Environments
CHAPTER 1: Imagining Landscapes
CHAPTER 2: Peopling the Southern Pacific
CHAPTER 3: Diseased Environments
Part II: Using Indigenous Resources
CHAPTER 4: Local Resources
CHAPTER 5: Taking Stock
CHAPTER 6: Resources for the Metropole
CHAPTER 7: The Human Resource
Part III: Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues
CHAPTER 8: Paying for the Damages
CHAPTER 9: Close Out
CHAPTER 10: Leavings on Landscape
CHAPTER 11: Legacies and Visions
Part IV: Embodying War's Environment
CHAPTER 12: Remembering Place
CHAPTER 13: Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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