Ruth Douglas Currie

Kwajalein Atoll, the Marshall Islands and American Policy in the Pacific

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For centuries, the Marshall Islands have been drawn into international politics, primarily because of their central location in Oceania. After World War II they came into the American sphere as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. At the outset of the Cold War, the Marshalls were a site for nuclear tests and later for the U.S. Army's ballistic missile testing as part of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. This book focuses on the islanders' tenacious negotiations for independence and control of their land, accomplished as the Republic of the Marshall Islands in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. The creation of American policy in the Pacific was a struggle between the U.S. departments of the Interior and State, and the military's goals for strategic national defense, as illustrated by the case of the Army's base at Kwajalein Atoll.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781476663111
• ISBN-10: 1476663114
• Artikelnr.: 45114844

Autorenporträt

Ruth Douglas Currie is a professor emerita in the History Department, Appalachian State University. She served four years as command historian, U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, and recently retired as a professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction
One-America Claims the Pacific
Two-National Competition in the Nineteenth Century
Three-Versailles and the Japanese Mandate
Four-World War II
Five-Truman, the United Nations and U.S. Control
Six-The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Seven-The Congress of Micronesia
Eight-Micronesian Status Politics
Nine-Free Association
Ten-To the Twenty-First Century
Epilogue
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index