Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines

✍ Scribed by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 294
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Securing Paradise analyzes how cultures of U.S. imperialism are produced and sustained in Asia and the Pacific, particularly in Hawaii and the Philippines, by the mutually reinforcing dynamics of tourism and militarism.

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