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Domination and resistance : the United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War /
'Domination and Resistance' illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and Indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decisi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Domination and Resistance' illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and Indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. For decision makers in Washington, the Marshall Islands represented a strategic prize seized from Japan near the end of World War II. In the postwar period, under the auspices of a United Nations Trusteeship Agreement, the United States reinforced its control of the Marshall Islands and kept the Soviet Union and other Cold War rivals out of this Pacific region. The United States also used the opportunity to test a vast array of powerful nuclear bombs and missiles in the Marshalls, at the same time conducting research on the effects of human exposure to radioactive fallout. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824858148 082485814X 9780824858124 0824858123 9780824869014 082486901X |