Suburban Empire

Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific

Lauren Hirshberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28916-1 (ISBN)

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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 segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.

Lauren Hirshberg is Assistant Professor of History at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

Contents

List of Illustrations
A Note on Language

Introduction—Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific

1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific:
Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity
2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction
3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein
4. “Mayberry by the Sea”: Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands
5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese
Self-Determination
6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the “Postcolonial” Era

Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	American Crossroads ; 64
Zusatzinfo	17 figures, 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-520-28916-1 / 0520289161
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28916-1 / 9780520289161
Zustand	Neuware