Domination and Resistance : The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War /

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'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...

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Autor principal: Smith-Norris, Martha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nuclear weapons testing victims.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
Nuclear weapons > Environmental aspects.
Diplomatic relations.
HISTORY > Military > Nuclear Warfare.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Nuclear weapons > Environmental aspects > Marshall Islands.
Nuclear weapons testing victims > Marshall Islands.
Nuclear weapons > Marshall Islands > Testing.
United States.
Marshall Islands.
Marshall (Archipel) > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
United States > Foreign relations > Marshall Islands.
Marshall Islands > Foreign relations > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780824858148

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