Author: Stanford University. School of Naval AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Micronesia
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Handbook on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Author: Stanford University. School of Naval AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Micronesia
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Handbook on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a Handbook for Use in Training and Administration
Author: United States Naval Operations OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Handbook on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Author: Stanford University. School of Naval AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Handbook on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Author: Welcoming America's Newest Commonwealth
Author: Northern Mariana Islands Commission on Federal LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Kwajalein Atoll, the Marshall Islands and American Policy in the Pacific
Author: Ruth Douglas CurriePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476626324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
For centuries, the Marshall Islands have been drawn into international politics, primarily because of their central location in Oceania. After World War II they came into the American sphere as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. At the outset of the Cold War, the Marshalls were a site for nuclear tests and later for the U.S. Army's ballistic missile testing as part of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. This book focuses on the islanders' tenacious negotiations for independence and control of their land, accomplished as the Republic of the Marshall Islands in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. The creation of American policy in the Pacific was a struggle between the U.S. departments of the Interior and State, and the military's goals for strategic national defense, as illustrated by the case of the Army's base at Kwajalein Atoll.
Research Catalogue
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Report on the Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Micronesia
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Drinking Smoke
Author: Mac MarshallPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Tobacco kills 5 million people every year and that number is expected to double by the year 2020. Despite its enormous toll on human health, tobacco has been largely neglected by anthropologists. Drinking Smoke combines an exhaustive search of historical materials on the introduction and spread of tobacco in the Pacific with extensive anthropological accounts of the ways Islanders have incorporated this substance into their lives. The author uses a relatively new concept called a syndemic—the synergistic interaction of two or more afflictions contributing to a greater burden of disease in a population—to focus at once on the health of a community, political and economic structures, and the wider physical and social environment and ultimately provide an in-depth analysis of smoking’s negative health impact in Oceania. In Drinking Smoke the idea of a syndemic is applied to the current health crisis in the Pacific, where the number of deaths from coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease continues to rise, and the case is made that smoking tobacco in the form of industrially manufactured cigarettes is the keystone of the contemporary syndemic in Oceania. The author shows how tobacco consumption (particularly cigarette smoking after World War II) has become the central interstitial element of a syndemic that produces most of the morbidity and mortality Pacific Islanders suffer. This syndemic is made up of a bundle of diseases and conditions, a set of historical circumstances and events, and social and health inequities most easily summed up as “poverty.” He calls this the tobacco syndemic and argues that smoking is the crucial behavior—the “glue”—holding all of these diseases and conditions together. Drinking Smoke is the first book-length examination of the damaging tobacco syndemic in a specific world region. It is a must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Pacific studies, history, and economic globalization, as well as for public health practitioners and those working in allied health fields. More broadly the book will appeal to anyone concerned with disease interaction, the social context of disease production, and the full health consequences of the global promotional efforts of Big Tobacco.