Pathways to the Present / Mansel G. Blackford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910265239803321
• Autore: Blackford Mansel G. <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Honolulu, : University of Hawai'i Press, 2007; Honolulu : , : University of Hawai'i Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 0-8248-7847-7; 0-8248-6390-9; 1-4356-6633-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.995
• Soggetti: History / United States; History; Electronic books.; United States Relations Islands of the Pacific; Islands of the Pacific Relations United States; United States Insular possessions History; United States Territories and possessions History; Aleutian Islands (Alaska) History; Islands of the Pacific History; Islands of the Pacific Economic conditions; Pacific States History; Pacific States Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-255) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- Pacific developments -- The Hawaiian Islands: the "healing" of Kahoʻolawe -- The Pacific coast: Seattle and Silicon Valley -- Alaska: the Aleutian islands -- Southern Japan during American occupation: Hiroshima and Okinawa -- Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1990's, 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.