Destiny's Landfall

Destiny's Landfall
Author: Robert F. Rogers
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0824833341

This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.

Mass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944

Mass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944
Author: Alexander Astroth
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2019-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476674566

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured. Though these mass suicides have been mentioned in documentary films, they have received scant scholarly attention. This book draws on United States National Archives documents and photographs, as well as veteran and survivor testimonies, to provide readers with a better understanding of what happened on the two islands and why. The author details the experiences of the people of the islands from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on the Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, Chamorro and Carolinian civilians during invasion and occupation.

Islands of Empire

Islands of Empire
Author: Camilla Fojas
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0292756305

Examining a broad range of pop culture media-film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature-Fojas explores the United States as an empire and how it has narrated its relationship to its island territories.

Pathways to the Present

Pathways to the Present
Author: Mansel G. Blackford
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0824878477

Ranging from the Hawaiian Archipelago to the Aleutian Islands, from Silicon Valley to Guam, Pathways to the Present is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar "American" Pacific. Following a brief survey of the history of the Pacific, the author takes the Hawaiian Islands as the center of American activities in the region and looks at interactions among native Hawaiian, developmental, military, and environmental issues in the archipelago after World War II. He then turns to land- and water-use problems that have intersected with more nebulous quality-of-life concerns to generate policy controversies in the Seattle region and the San Francisco Bay area, especially Silicon Valley. Economic expansion and environmentalism in Alaska are examined through the lens of changes occurring along the Aleutians. From there the study considers Hiroshima after its destruction by the atomic bomb in 1945, looking at residents’ desire to combine urban-planning concepts. The author investigates the effort to remake Hiroshima as a high-tech city in the 1990s, an attempt inspired by the perceived success of Silicon Valley, and postwar planning on Okinawa, where American influences were particularly strong. The final chapter takes into account issues raised on Guam regarding the growth of tourism and the use of the island for military purposes and links these to developments in the Philippines to the west and American Sâmoa to the south. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.

Asian-American Education

Asian-American Education
Author: Meyer Weinberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

First historical work to analyze the entire range of Asian-American education & provide American readers with info. about highly individual ethnic groups rather than lumping all Asian-Americans together into one all-inclusive category.

The Book of Bera

The Book of Bera
Author: Suzie Wilde
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783522798

Born and raised in a stark, coastal village on the shore of the Ice-Rimmed Sea, Bera is the daughter of a Valla, the Vikings’ most powerful seers. But her mother died when she was young, leaving Bera alone with her gift, unable to control her feckless twin spirit or understand her visions of the future. When this inability leads to the death of her childhood friend at the hands of a rival clan, Bera vows revenge. And learning that her father has sold her into marriage with the murderous enemy’s chieftain, she is presented with an opportunity even sooner than she had hoped... As her powers grow stronger, her visions of looming disaster become more and more ominous until she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she exact vengeance? Or can she lead her people to safety before it’s too late?

Isla

Isla
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1996
Genre: Micronesia
ISBN: