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Consuming Ocean Island : stories of people and phosphate from Banaba /

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Teaiwa, Katerina Martina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:	Tracking globalization.
Subjects:	Banaba (Kiribati) > History > 20th century. Phosphate mines and mining > Kiribati > Banaba > History > 20th century. Banabans (I-Kiribati people) > Relocation > History > 20th century.

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