Suburban Empire

Lauren Hirshberg is Assistant Professor of History at Regis University in Denver, Colorado.

Contents

List of Illustrations
A Note on Language

Introduction—Home on the Range: US Empire and Innocence in the Cold War Pacific

1. From Wartime Victory to Cold War Containment in the Pacific: 
   Building the Postwar US Security State on Marshallese Insecurity
2. New Homes for New Workers: Colonialism, Contract, and Construction
3. Domestic Containment in the Pacific: Segregation and Surveillance on Kwajalein
4. “Mayberry by the Sea”: Americans Find Home in the Marshall Islands
5. Reclaiming Home: Operation Homecoming and the Path toward Marshallese 
   Self-Determination
6. US Empire and the Shape of Marshallese Sovereignty in the “Postcolonial” Era

Conclusion: Kwajalein and Ebeye in a New Era of Insecurity

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index