Kwajalein Atoll, the Marshall Islands and American policy in the Pacific /Ruth Douglas Currie.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
America claims the Pacific -- National competition in the nineteenth century -- Versailles and the Japanese mandate -- World War II -- Truman, the United Nations and U.S. control -- Trust territory of the Pacific islands -- The Congress of Micronesia -- Micronesian status politics -- Free association -- To the twenty-first century.
"This book focuses on the islanders' tenacious negotiations for independence and control of their land, accomplished as the Republic of the Marshall Islands in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. The creation of American policy in the Pacific was a struggle between the U.S. departments of the Interior and State"--