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Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific

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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 within the postwar “American” Pacific. Following a brief survey of the history of the Pacific, the writer takes the Hawaiian Islands as the middle of American activities within the region and looks at interactions among native Hawaiian, developmental, military, and environmental issues within 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 within the Seattle region and the San Francisco Bay area, especially Silicon Valley. Economic expansion and environmentalism in Alaska are examined throughout the lens of changes occurring along the Aleutians. From there the study considers Hiroshima after its destruction by the atomic bomb in 1945, taking a look at residents’ desire to mix urban-planning concepts. The writer investigates the trouble to remake Hiroshima as a high-tech city within 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 consideration issues raised on Guam in regards to the growth of tourism and the usage of the island for military purposes and links these to developments within the Philippines to the west and American Sâmoa to the south.

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