The US Military in Hawai‘i: Colonialism,
✍ Brian Ireland (auth.)
📂 Library
📅 2011
🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK
🌐 English
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The US Military in Hawai’i: Colonialism, Memory and Resistance
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An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 War Stories: A Militarized History
of Hawai‘i......Page 22
2 Remembering and Forgetting at
Waikı¯kı¯’s Great War Memorial......Page 64
3 ‘Unknown Soldiers’: Remembering
Hawai‘i’s Great War Dead......Page 104
4 Hooray for Haolewood? Hawai‘i
on Film......Page 154
5 Hawai‘i’s Press and the Vietnam
War......Page 191
Afterword
Alternative Futures –– A
Demilitarized Hawai‘i......Page 239
Notes......Page 245
Works Cited......Page 255
Index......Page 276
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