Suburban Empire Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific

Name: Suburban Empire Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific
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ISBN: 9780520289161

ISBN-10: 0520289161

ISBN-13: 9780520289161

Edition: 2022

Authors: Lauren Hirshberg

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Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US 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 US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War-era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/15/2022
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English