The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism, Memory and Resistance

✍ Scribed by Brian Ireland (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
War Stories: A Militarized History of Hawai‘i....Pages 1-42
Remembering and Forgetting at Waikīkī’s Great War Memorial....Pages 43-82
‘Unknown Soldiers’: Remembering Hawai‘i’s Great War Dead....Pages 83-132
Hooray for Haolewood? Hawai‘i on Film....Pages 133-169
Hawai‘i’s Press and the Vietnam War....Pages 170-217
Afterword Alternative Futures — A Demilitarized Hawai’i....Pages 218-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-262

✦ Subjects

US History; Modern History; History of the Americas; History of Military; Cultural History; Political History

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