Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982 - Softcover

Hanlon, David L.

 
9780824820114: Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0824820118 ISBN 13: 9780824820114
Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
University of Hawai'i Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0824820118
ISBN 13 
9780824820114
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Anzahl der Seiten
305
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