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Author : Lawrence J. Cunningham,Janice J. Beaty
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1573060682
Covers the lives and legends of the first people of Guam and traces the island's development into present day. Illustrations, glossary, index. RL4
Author : Robert F. Rogers
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824833343
This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.
Author : Lawrence J. Cunningham,Janice J. Beatty
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1573060674
A thorough introduction to the land, resources, and communities of Guam and Micronesia. Glossary, index. RL3
Author : Paul Carano,Pedro Cruz Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Guam
ISBN : OCLC:265463250
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123502804
Author : Don A. Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Guam
ISBN : UOM:39015040168570
Author : Paul Carano,Pedro C. Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316183281
Author : Vicente M. Diaz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824860462
In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Mata'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The work juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first, "From Above, Working the Native," focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two, "From Below: Working the Saint," shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. "From Behind: Transgressive Histories" shifts from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author’s own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Mata'pang. Theoretically innovative and provocative, humorous, and inspired, Repositioning the Missionary melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.
Author : Nicholas J. Goetzfridt
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860301
"Goetzfridt’s work demonstrates the dynamics of history, each generation considering past events in light of current realities and contemporary understandings of the world. This volume, therefore, is important not simply because it provides us with an invaluable and substantial fount of references that will be supremely useful to teachers, scholars, and all enthusiasts of Mariana Islands history. Its importance lies also in its packaging as a resource for current and future generations to understand the changing face and contested space of Guam history." —from the Foreword by Anne Perez Hattori Blending bibliographic integrity with absorbing essays on a wide range of historical interpretations, Nicholas Goetzfridt offers a new approach to the history of Guam. Here is a treasure trove of ideas, historiographies, and opportunities that allows readers to reassess previously held notions and conclusions about Guam’s past and the heritage of the indigenous Chamorro people. Particular attention is given to Chamorro perspectives and the impact of more than four hundred years of colonial presences on Micronesia’s largest island. Extensive cross-references and generous but targeted samples of historical narratives compliment the bibliographic essays. Detailed Name and Subject Indexes to the book’s 326 entries cover accounts and interpretations of the island from Ferdinand Magellan’s "discovery" of Guahan ("Guam" in the Chamorro language) in 1521 to recent events, including the Japanese occupation and the American liberation of Guam in 1944. The indexes enable easy and extensive access to a bounty of information. The Place Index contains both large and localized geographic realms that are placed vividly in the context of these histories. An insightful Foreword by Chamorro scholar Anne Perez Hattori is included.
Author : Roger Mansell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511238
In the years before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, Guam was a paradise for the Navy, Marine and civilian employees of Pan American Airways, who found themselves stationed on the island. However their apprehension about the fate of the island increased as they anticipated a Japanese attack in the fall of 1941. Shortly after attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was bombed and the Japanese invasion soon followed. Since Guam was not heavily fortified it soon fell to the invading Japanese. In the takeover of the island, the Japanese practiced a swift brutality against the captive Americans as well as native population, and then immediately removed the American military and civilian personnel to Japan. Only a lucky few escaped, including five Navy nurses and dependent Ruby Hellmers and her baby Charlene, who were transported back to America aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm in mid-1942. In Captured, Mansell tells the story of the captives from Guam, whose story until now has largely been forgotten. Drawing upon interviews with survivors, diaries and archival records, Mansell documents the movements of American military and civilian men as they went from one Japanese POW camp to another, slowly starving as they performed slave labor for Japanese companies. Meanwhile, he describes the brutal horrors suffered by Guamian natives during Japan’s occupation of the island, especially as the Japanese prepared for American forces to re-take this U.S. possession in 1945. Moving stories of liberation, transportation home, and the aftermath of these horrific experiences are narrated as the book draws to a close. Mansell concludes that America’s lack of military preparation, disbelief in Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific, and focus on Europe all contributed to the captivity of more than three years of suffering for the forgotten Americans from Guam as the Pacific War raged around them. Captured was completed by historian Linda Goetz Holmes after the death of Roger Mansell.
Author : Lawrence J. Cunningham,Janice J. Beaty
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : History
ISBN : 157306047X
Covers the lives and legends of the first people of Guam and traces the island's development into present day. Illustrations, glossary, index. RL4
Author : Christine Taitano DeLisle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469652719
From 1898 until World War II, U.S. imperial expansion brought significant numbers of white American women to Guam, primarily as wives to naval officers stationed on the island. Indigenous CHamoru women engaged with navy wives in a range of settings, and they used their relationships with American women to forge new forms of social and political power. As Christine Taitano DeLisle explains, much of the interaction between these women occurred in the realms of health care, midwifery, child care, and education. DeLisle focuses specifically on the pattera, Indigenous nurse-midwives who served CHamoru families. Though they showed strong interest in modern delivery practices and other accoutrements of American modernity under U.S. naval hegemony, the pattera and other CHamoru women never abandoned deeply held Indigenous beliefs, values, and practices, especially those associated with inafa'maolek--a code of behavior through which individual, collective, and environmental balance, harmony, and well-being were stewarded and maintained. DeLisle uses her evidence to argue for a "placental politics--a new conceptual paradigm for Indigenous women's political action. Drawing on oral histories, letters, photographs, military records, and more, DeLisle reveals how the entangled histories of CHamoru and white American women make us rethink the cultural politics of U.S. imperialism and the emergence of new Indigenous identities.
Author : Lee D. Carter,William L. Wuerch,Rosa Roberto Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Guam
ISBN : UOM:39015063291671
Author : Anne Perez Hattori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824851194
A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. Changes to Guam’s traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations. Hattori effectively demonstrates that the new health projects signified more than a benevolent interest in hygiene and the philanthropic sharing of medical knowledge. Rather the navy’s health care regime in Guam was an important vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over Chamorros was introduced and entrenched. Medical experts, navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and in the process became active participants in the colonization of Guam.
Author : Janice J. Beatty,Lawrence J. Cunningham
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1573060704
Covers the lives and legends of the first people of Guam and traces the island's development into present day. Illustrations, glossary, index. RL4
