Coral and Concrete : : Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands / / Greg Dvorak; ed. by Terence Wesley-Smith, Patricio N. Abinales.
Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak's cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple "atollscapes" of Kwajalein's past and present...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia Pacific Flows
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 51 b&w illustrations, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Style
- Maps
- Glossary
- Prelude: The Middle of Now-here
- CHAPTER 1. Coral and Concrete: Paradigm for Pacific Pasts
- CHAPTER 2. Mapping "the Martial Islands": Imagi-Nations and Mythologies of Kwajalein
- CHAPTER 3. Chasing the Chieftain's Daughter: Dancing Japan's Pacific Desires
- CHAPTER 4. Bones: Confronting the Atollscapes of War
- CHAPTER 5. Capturing Liberation: American Imag(in)ings of the Battle of Kwajalein
- CHAPTER 6. The Haunted Bathtub: Encountering the Spirits of the Atoll
- CHAPTER 7. Dislocations: Moving Land, Moving People
- CHAPTER 8. Homecoming, 2016: The Ri-Kuwajleen Revolution
- CHAPTER 9. Atollism: Reconnecting Kwajalein's Past into the Present
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Image Notes
- Index
- About the Author