Remaking Micronesia

by David L. Hanlon and David Hanlon

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820118
• ISBN13: 9780824820114
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"