Roars from the mountain : colonial management of the 1951 volcanic disaster at Mount Lamington /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, R. W. (R. Wally) (Author)
Corporate Authors:	JSTOR (Organization), Australian National University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2020.
Series:	Pacific series.
Subjects:	Volcanoes > Papua New Guinea > Lamington, Mount. Emergency management > Papua New Guinea > History. Volcanic eruptions > Papua New Guinea > History. Disaster relief > Papua New Guinea > History. Hazard mitigation > Papua New Guinea > History. Natural disasters > Papua New Guinea > History. Volcanoes > Papua New Guinea. HISTORY / Oceania. Disaster relief. Emergency management. Hazard mitigation. Natural disasters. Volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes. Papua New Guinea. Electronic books. History.
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Table of Contents:

pt 1. Tidal wave from the West. 1. Claiming land for the British empire ; 2. Colonialism on a shoestring ; 3. World War and Australian recovery
pt 2. Catastrophic eruption. 4. Victims, survivors and evacuations ; 5. The next 10 days: disaster relief and controversy ; 6. Beginning disaster recovery ; 7. Volcanological analysis and new eruptions
pt 3. After the disaster. 8. Resettlement, myths and memorialisation ; 9. Lead-up to independence ; 10. Living with Mount Lamington in postcolonial times
References
Appendices. Appendix A: Correspondence and reference collections ; Appendix B: A postcolonial time series.