Search Results for Pacific War

... Bolivia’s inability to protect its borders and valuable natural resources was painfully put in evidence during the disastrous War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chilean capitalists with British backing sought to control the rich saltpeter reserves they had been effectively exploiting in Bolivia’s...

..., a sentiment and art form that blossomed in the twentieth century. From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883) Wars of Independence War of the Pacific bullfights Chinese immigration slavery and abolition ...

... This chapter focuses on the wartime internment of Japanese immigrants, Chamorros, Marshallese, and prisoners of war across Hawai‘i, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands, and furthermore the circulation of prisoners between these camps and those in the US continent. Internment...

... This chapter expands the lens of analysis to trace the effects of the rise of tourism and the addition of military museums that together reconfigure the Pearl Harbor area into something like a military theme park focused on the bombing attack and the Pacific War. The arrival of the USS Missouri...

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... and seventy-fifth anniversaries of events marked by the memorial affords a close-up look at memorials as social spaces in which multiple histories intersect. At Pearl Harbor dominant military histories are increasingly joined by other narratives of the Pacific War and, indeed, by other Pearl Harbors...

... This chapter scrutinizes the American Cold War memories of the Asia-Pacific War that figured prominently in the impassioned dissension over the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s planned exhibit to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Simultaneously a testament...