Suburban empire : Cold War militarization in the US Pacific

"Suburban Empire takes readers to the U.S. missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar U.S. imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indig...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Hirshberg Lauren (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Suburban empire : Cold War militarization in the US Pacific / Lauren Hirshberg
Publié : Oakland, California : University of California Press , [2022]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii, 365 p.)
Collection : American crossroads ; 64
Contenu : Introduction : home on the range : U.S. empire and innocence in the Cold War Pacific. From wartime victory to Cold War containment in the Pacific : building the postwar U.S. security state on Marshallese insecurity. New homes for new workers : colonialism, contract and construction. Domestic containment in the Pacific : segregation and surveillance on Kwajalein. "Mayberry by the Sea" : Americans find home in the Marshall Islands. Reclaiming home : Operation Homecoming and the path towards Marshallese self determination. U.S. empire and the shape of Marshallese sovereignty in the "postcolonial" era. Conclusion : Kwajalein and Ebeye in a new era of insecurity
Sujets :
LEADER 03337nam a2200541 4500
001 PPN277477883
003 http://www.sudoc.fr/277477883
005 20240503055600.0
010 |a 978-0-5202-8915-4  |b br.  |d 82 EUR 
010 |a 0-520-28915-3 
010 |a 978-0-5202-8916-1 
010 |a 0-520-28916-1 
010 |z 9780520963856 
020 |a US  |b 2021037002 
020 |a GB  |b C1K7899 
035 |a (OCoLC)1267402217 
035 |a on1267402217 
035 |a UKMGB020424219 
100 |a 20240502d2022 k y0engy0103 ba 
101 0 |a eng  |2 639-2 
102 |a US 
105 |a ab a 001yy 
106 |a r 
181 |6 z01  |c txt  |2 rdacontent 
181 1 |6 z01  |a i#  |b xxxe## 
182 |6 z01  |c n  |2 rdamedia 
182 1 |6 z01  |a n 
183 |6 z01  |a nga  |2 RDAfrCarrier 
200 1 |a Suburban empire  |e Cold War militarization in the US Pacific  |f Lauren Hirshberg 
214 0 |a Oakland, California  |c University of California Press  |d [2022] 
215 |a 1 vol. (xiii, 365 p.)  |c ill. en cartes, ill. en noir et blanc, couv. ill. en coul.  |d 24 cm 
225 0 |a American crossroads  |v 64 
320 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-353) and index. 
327 1 |a Introduction : home on the range : U.S. empire and innocence in the Cold War Pacific  |a From wartime victory to Cold War containment in the Pacific : building the postwar U.S. security state on Marshallese insecurity  |a New homes for new workers : colonialism, contract and construction  |a Domestic containment in the Pacific : segregation and surveillance on Kwajalein  |a "Mayberry by the Sea" : Americans find home in the Marshall Islands  |a Reclaiming home : Operation Homecoming and the path towards Marshallese self determination  |a U.S. empire and the shape of Marshallese sovereignty in the "postcolonial" era  |a Conclusion : Kwajalein and Ebeye in a new era of insecurity 
330 |a "Suburban Empire takes readers to the U.S. missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar U.S. imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland U.S. as local and global iterations of U.S. empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated U.S. military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War era suburbanization war perfectly congruent with U.S. colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small town innocence"  |2 site éditeur 
410 | |0 01378840X  |t American crossroads  |v 64 
452 | |t Hirshberg, Lauren, 1978- Suburban empire  |c Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 
517 | |a Cold War militarization in the US Pacific 
606 |3 PPN061608114  |a Îles  |y Marshall (îles)  |3 PPN02726470X  |x Histoire  |2 rameau 
607 |a Marshall Islands  |y Kwajalein Atoll  |2 fast 
660 |a poxe--- 
676 |a 996.8/3  |v 23 
680 |a DU710  |b .H57 2022 
700 1 |3 PPN263057070  |a Hirshberg  |b Lauren  |f 1978-....  |4 070 
801 3 |a FR  |b Abes  |c 20240502  |g AFNOR 
930 |5 441092202:819480479  |b 441092202  |j g 
979 |a HIS 
998 |a 966798