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...
America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people...
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...
America's efforts at economic development in the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands proved to be about transforming in dramatic fashion people...
Tells the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Making Micronesia follows Nakayama's life through time, focusing on the expansiveness of his vision. In many ways, ""Macronesia"", not ""Micronesia,"" seems a more appropriate term for the world he inhabited and tried to make accessible to others.
Tells the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Making Micronesia follows Nakayama's life through...
