Overview

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland US as local and global iterations of US empire took hold. Tracing how Marshall Islanders navigated US military control over their lands, Suburban Empire reveals that Cold War–era suburbanization was perfectly congruent with US colonization, military testing, and nuclear fallout. The structures of suburban segregation cloaked the destructive history of control and militarism under a veil of small-town innocence.    

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Author:   Lauren Hirshberg
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   64
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520289161

ISBN 10:   0520289161
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations A Note on Language Introduction-Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific 1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific: Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity 2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction 3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein 4. Mayberry by the Sea : Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands 5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese Self-Determination 6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the Postcolonial Era Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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"""Suburban Empire will be of particular interest to historians of technology focused on nuclear science and technology, race and colonialism, built environments, and cultural history."" * Technology and Culture *"

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Lauren Hirshberg is Assistant Professor of History at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

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