Islands of empire
Fojas, Camilla, 1971-
Islands of empire pop culture and U.S. power / [electronic resource] : Camilla Fojas. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Islands of empire -- Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture -- Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro -- Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the -- State of Hawai'i -- Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption -- The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific -- Afterword: Whither empire? -- The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.
9780292756311 0292756313
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Popular culture--History.--United States
Mass media and culture--History.--United States
Islands of the Pacific--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Islands of the Pacific.
Electronic books.
P94.65.U6 / F65 2014
302.23/0973
Islands of empire pop culture and U.S. power / [electronic resource] : Camilla Fojas. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Islands of empire -- Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture -- Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro -- Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the -- State of Hawai'i -- Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption -- The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific -- Afterword: Whither empire? -- The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.
9780292756311 0292756313
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Popular culture--History.--United States
Mass media and culture--History.--United States
Islands of the Pacific--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Islands of the Pacific.
Electronic books.
P94.65.U6 / F65 2014
302.23/0973