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Author Flores, Alfred Peredo, 1980- author.

Title Tip of the spear : land, labor, and US settler militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962 / Alfred Peredo Flores
Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series The United States in the World
United States in the world.
Contents Introduction: Becoming the Tip of America's Spear -- CHamoru Land Stewardship and Military Land Taking -- The Remaking of Guåhan -- The Civilian-Military Laborers of Guåhan -- Militarized Intimacies -- From Breadbasket to Naval Air Station
Summary "This book utilizes the concept of settler militarism to investigate how the island of Guåhan was transformed from a pre-World War II coaling station into a major U.S. military site that was used to wage military operations during the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2023)
Subject Militarism -- Guam -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / General
Armed Forces
Militarism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Guam -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Guam -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Armed Forces -- Guam
Subject Guam
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022055137
ISBN 1501771361
9781501771354
1501771353
9781501771361
Other Titles Land, labor, and United States settler militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962