Making Micronesia : : A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama / / David L. Hanlon.
Making Micronesia is the story of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Born to a Japanese father and an island woman in 1931 on an atoll northwest of the main Chuuk Lagoon group, Nakayama grew up during Japan's colonial administration of greater Micr...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 27 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing a Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama
- Chapter 1. A World of Islands
- Chapter 2. Japanese Times
- Chapter 3. An Education
- Chapter 4. Representing Micronesia, 1961-1975
- Chapter 5. Constituting a Nation
- Chapter 6. One Canoe
- Chapter 7. Governing a Rainbow
- Chapter 8. Rough Seas and Later Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author