Pathways to the Present

Ranging from the Hawaiian Archipelago to the Aleutian Islands, from Silicon Valley to Guam, Pathways to the Present is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar "American" Pacific. Following a brief survey of the history of the...

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Autor principal: Blackford, Mansel G., 1944- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 2007
Honolulu : 2007.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419800106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Pacific developments
  • The Hawaiian Islands: the "healing" of Kahoʻolawe
  • The Pacific coast: Seattle and Silicon Valley
  • Alaska: the Aleutian islands
  • Southern Japan during American occupation: Hiroshima and Okinawa
  • Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic essay
  • Index.