Memories of War : : Micronesians in the Pacific War /

Memories of War : : Micronesians in the Pacific War / / Suzanne Falgout, Laurence Marshall Carucci, Lin Poyer.

Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Whether they spent the war in bomb shelters, in sweet potato fields under the guns of Japanese soldiers, or in their...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Falgout, Suzanne,
Carucci, Laurence Marshall,
Poyer, Lin,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
©2007
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.) :; 21 illus., 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ISLAND NAMES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I: Backgrounds
  • Chapter 1. "MICRONESIA"
  • Chapter 2. CULTURAL MEMORIES AND THE PACIFIC WAR
  • PART II: Micronesian Understandings of the Pacifi c War
  • Chapter 3. THE MEANING OF WAR
  • Chapter 4. THE SHOCK OF WAR
  • Chapter 5. HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING
  • Chapter 6. COMBAT EXPERIENCES
  • PART III: Micronesian Vantage Points
  • Chapter 7. "IT WAS NOT OUR WAR"
  • Chapter 8. THE TYPHOON OF WAR
  • Chapter 9. QUESTIONS OF LOYALTY
  • Chapter 10. MICRONESIAN RESPONSES TO WARTIME PRESSURES
  • PART IV: Cultural Themes in Micronesian Wartime Narratives
  • Chapter 11. SOME MICRONESIAN PREOCCUPATIONS
  • Chapter 12. GREETINGS AND FAREWELLS
  • PART V: Conclusions
  • Chapter 13. WARTIME MEMORIES IN THE MODERN WORLD
  • Chapter 14. "THE GREAT AIRPLANE"
  • APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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