Author: Patrick Alfred BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aedes
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia: an Account of Investigations in Samoa, Tonga, the Ellice Group, and the New Hebrides, in 1924, 1925
Author: Patrick Alfred BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aedes
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia
Author: Patrick Alfred BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Research in Polynesia and Melanesia
Author: Patrick Alfred BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aëdes argenteus
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
United States Naval Medical Bulletin
Author: Collected Addresses and Laboratory Studies
Author: Robert Thomson LeiperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Natives and Exotics
Author: Judith A. BennettPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
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: 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. 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. Impeccably researched, Natives and Exotics is essential reading for those interested in environmental history, Pacific studies, and a different kind of war story that has surprising relevance for today’s concerns with global warming.
The Entomologist
Author: Grain Dust Abstracts
Author: Collected Addresses and Laboratory Studies
Author: London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tropical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Author: Marc OxenhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131753400X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands with contributions alternating between region and/or site specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. Including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. Providing new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health, no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes.