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Pacific Forest - A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997 (Paperback, New edition): Judith A.... Pacific Forest - A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997 (Paperback, New edition)
Judith A. Bennett
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pacific Forest explores the use of the forests of the Solomon Islands from the prehistoric period up to the end of 1997, when much of the indigenous commercial forest had been logged. It is the first study of the history of the forest in any Pacific Island; the first analysis of the indigenous and British colonial perceptions of the Melanesian forest; and the first critical analysis for this region, not only of colonial forest policies but of later policies and practices which made the governments of independence exploiters of their own people. Pacific Forest addresses a range of evidence drawn from several disciplines, and is a major contribution to environmental history.

Wealth of the Solomons - A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800-1978 (Hardcover): Judith A. Bennett Wealth of the Solomons - A History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800-1978 (Hardcover)
Judith A. Bennett
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Natives and Exotics - World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific (Hardcover): Judith A. Bennett Natives and Exotics - World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific (Hardcover)
Judith A. Bennett
R1,966 R1,771 Discovery Miles 17 710 Save R195 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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