Americanization of Micronesia

Gale, Roger W. (February 1979). Americanization of Micronesia. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN). ISBN 0-8191-0703-4.

Abstract: Gale outlines the series of events and their post-war sequencewhich led to the establishment of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. These events are often forgotten these days in the flurry of activityand political realignment talks which today dominate the stage for Micronesia-watchers. Gale says in this book that US strategic interests in thearea have always held sway in American policy considerations towards island development, and in fact he suggests that deliberate designs for dependency have been implemented.

Gale traces for us the story of the US involvement in the Trust Territory as far back as the special wartime training programs for postwar island administrators at the Stanford School of Naval Administration. Hefollows through with the US Commercial Company which, in effect, ranthe island economy immediately after the war, to the comprehensive investigation of Micronesian anthropology (CIMA), the largest and mostcomprehensive social examination of people ever made up until that time.He also critically analyzes the now infamous “Solomon Report” onMicronesia which was commissioned in the mid-1960s to examine political alternatives and futures for the islands; the Peace Corps presence; andthe entire US strategic significance of the area.

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