Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the Us Pacific Volume 64 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520289154)

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.


Author: Lauren Hirshberg
ISBN-10: 0520289153
ISBN-13: 9780520289154
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d