Overview
- Situates American Samoa’s historical and political importance within the U.S. empire building of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Expands the U.S. empire building scholarship to include and recognize American Samoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects
- Evidences Americanization patterns, inequitable power relations between Native Samoans and the military, intercultural incompetency by the military court system, and the impacts these issues have had to the cornerstones of the Native Samoan culture: communal lands and fa’amatai
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa
Book Subtitle: Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories
Authors: Line-Noue Memea Kruse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69971-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69970-7Published: 15 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88870-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69971-4Published: 06 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, International Organization, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law