Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory 1944-1982 - Couverture rigide

Hanlon, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0824818946 ISBN 13 : 9780824818944

Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 1998

Synopsis

America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people who occupied real estate deemed vital to American strategic concerns. Called "Micronesians," these island people were regarded as other, and their otherness came to be seen as incompatible with American interests.

And so, underneath the liberal rhetoric that surrounded arguments, proposals, and programs for economic development was a deeper purpose. America's domination would be sustained by the remaking of these islands into places that had the look, feel, sound, speed, smell, and taste of America - had the many and varied plans actually succeeded. However, the gap between intent and effect holds a rich and deeply entangled history.

Remaking Micronesia stands as an important, imaginative, much needed contribution to the study of Micronesia, American policy in the Pacific, and the larger debate about development. It will be an important source of insight and critique for scholars and students working at the intersection of history, culture, and power in the Pacific.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Hanlon is a past director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. A former editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs and the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, he currently teaches in the university's Department of History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Hawai'i Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0824818946
• ISBN 13: 9780824818944
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible