Remaking The Pacific: Ecological Imagination And Transformation In France’s Pacific Island Empire 1842-1931

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dc.contributor.advisorLauzon, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorCavert, William Matthew
dc.contributor.departmentHistory
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T19:58:38Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T19:58:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis study considers the projects behind particular forms of environmental change across France’s Pacific Empire. Specific attention is paid to the shifting nature of imagined, desired, and created environments as settlers, merchants, administrators, and islanders, among others, competed to manifest their vision over island landscapes. The study takes the 1931 Exposition coloniale internationale in Paris as emblematic of the colonial narratives that promoted, justified, and reinforced a particular colonial vision for the environment. It was a key moment for retrospectively considering the two developments analyzed in this study: the coffee plantation economy of New Caledonia and the phosphate mining operation on Makatea.
dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/102240
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subjectPhosphate mines and mining
dc.subjectCoffee plantations
dc.titleRemaking The Pacific: Ecological Imagination And Transformation In France’s Pacific Island Empire 1842-1931
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.spatialFrench Polynesia--Makatea
dcterms.spatialNew Caledonia
local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:11289

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