"Securing Paradise will become a landmark work. It is the first systematic comparison of the Philippines and Hawaii within the shared optic of U.S. imperial history and its military-tourism security complex. It will serve as a model for an emergent
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawaii and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawaii and the Philip...
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