The US Military in Hawai’i

Colonialism, Memory and Resistance

B. Ireland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2010
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-22782-8 (ISBN)

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An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands.

BRIAN IRELAND is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. After graduating from the University of Ulster, Brian was accepted into the PhD Program in American Studies at the University of Hawaii. A recipient of a Centre for Asia-Pacific Exchange scholarship, conferred for academic excellence, he graduated from the University of Hawaii in December 2004. He currently teaches American History at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He has published papers on such diverse topics as war memorials, film, comic books, and the road genre, and has presented papers at conferences in Wyoming, Edinburgh and Honolulu.

Illustrations Introduction War Stories: A Militarized History of Hawai'i Remembering and Forgetting at Waik?k?'s Great War Memorial 'Unknown Soldiers': Remembering Hawai'i's Great War Dead Hooray For Haolewood? Hawai'i on Film Hawai'i's Press, and the Vietnam War Afterword Works Cited Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2010
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 262 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
ISBN-10	0-230-22782-1 / 0230227821
ISBN-13	978-0-230-22782-8 / 9780230227828
Zustand	Neuware