Coral and concrete : paradigm for Pacific pasts -- Mapping "the Martial Islands" : imagi-nations and mythologies of Kwajalein -- Chasing the chieftain's daughter : dancing Japan's Pacific desires -- Bones : confronting the atollscapes of war -- Capturing liberation : American im…
"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 prese…
During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, p…
Introduction: Sunrise in the west; snow in the tropics -- Operation Crossroads: the world's first nuclear disaster -- The coming of the "super"--Runaway bomb -- The victims of Bravo -- Monsters and movements: the cultural "fallout" of nuclear testing -- Bikini postmortem I: Publ…
During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, p…
"This book offers 14 interdisciplinary studies on transgender identities and relevant non-normative forms of gender and sexuality among Pacific Islanders. One of the goals of the editors is to show that the transgender issues can garner academic discussions without being overly …
Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them …
In the short space of a single lifetime, from 1886 to 1945, four colonial regimes planted their flags in the area. Each of these regimes came with differing capabilities, languages, customs and notions of mission. Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of this…
"Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of [a] succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources as well as his own considerable knowledge of the region. This is a 'conventional' history, and a very good one, focused …
