ISBN:
0824833503
,
0824832655
,
9780824833503
,
9780824832650
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVI, 439 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
,
24 cm
DDC:
940.53/1
Keywords:
United States History World War, 1939-1945
;
United States / Army History
;
World War, 1939-1945
;
Natural resources History 20th century
;
Human ecology History 20th century
;
Nature Effect of human beings on 20th century
;
History
;
World War, 1939-1945 Environmental aspects
;
World War, 1939-1945 Political aspects
;
World War, 1939-1945 Environmental aspects
;
Oceania
;
Natural resources History
;
20th century
;
Oceania
;
Human ecology History
;
20th century
;
Oceania
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
20th century
;
Oceania
;
World War, 1939-1945 Political aspects
;
Oceania
;
Oceania Environmental conditions
;
United States Relations
;
Oceania Relations
;
Oceania Social conditions 20th century
;
Oceania Environmental conditions
;
Oceania Social conditions
;
20th century
;
United States Relations
;
Oceania
;
Oceania Relations
;
United States
;
Ozeanien
;
Pazifikkrieg
;
Umwelt
;
Natürliche Ressourcen
;
Umweltgefährdung
;
Soziale Situation
;
Internationale Politik
;
USA
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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