Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Currency, Measurement, and Place-Names xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Preface: Was the Environment a Stage or an Actor? xix
7. Prologue: The Great Ocean: How Others Tried to Ride Its Waves 1
8. Part I: Encountering Pacific Environments
9. CHAPTER 1: Imagining Landscapes 11
10. CHAPTER 2: Peopling the Southern Pacific 28
11. CHAPTER 3: Diseased Environments 49
12. Part II: Using Indigenous Resources
13. CHAPTER 4: Local Resources 75
14. CHAPTER 5: Taking Stock 97
15. CHAPTER 6: Resources for the Metropole 115
16. CHAPTER 7: The Human Resource 133
17. Part III: Exiting Environment, Leaving Residues
18. CHAPTER 8: Paying for the Damages 157
19. CHAPTER 9: Close Out 179
20. CHAPTER 10: Leavings on Landscape 198
21. CHAPTER 11: Legacies and Visions 219
22. Part IV: Embodying War's Environment
23. CHAPTER 12: Remembering Place 243
24. CHAPTER 13: Places of Memory, Sites of Forgetting 268
25. Conclusion 291
26. Notes 307
27. Bibliography 393
28. Index 425
29. About the Author 441