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Natives and Exotics - World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific (Hardcover)
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Natives and Exotics - World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific (Hardcover)
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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. 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.
Judith Bennett reveals how prewar notions of a paradisiacal Pacific
set up millions of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and
Japanese for grave disappointment when they encountered the
reality. She shows that objects usually considered distinct from
environmental concerns (souvenirs, cemeteries, war memorials)
warrant further examination as the emotional quintessence of events
in a particular place. Among native people, wartime experiences and
resource utilization induced a shift in environmental perceptions
just as the postwar colonial agenda demanded increased
diversification of the resource base. Bennett's ability to
reappraise such human perceptions and productions with an
environmental lens is one of the unique qualities of this study.
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