Introduction: A New Net Goes Fishing

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xix
5. Prologue: War Comes to the Pacific xxi
6. Introduction: A New Net Goes Fishing 1
7. 1. Bora Bora: “Like a Dream” 31
8. 2. “There Are No Commoners in Samoa” 42
9. 3. New Caledonia: The Experiences of a War Bride and Her Children 83
10. 4. No Bali Ha‘i: New Hebrides 118
11. 5. Wallis (Uvea) Island: A Different Kind of Love Story 146
12. Tonga in the Time of the Americans 165
13. 7. Kai Merika! Fijian Children of American Servicemen 183
14. 8. “I Don’t Like Maori Girls Going Out with Yanks”: Māori-American Encounters in New Zealand 202
15. 9. The Solomon Islands: Off the Radar 228
16. 10. Marike Koe: The American Children of the Cook Islands 243
17. 11. On the Atolls: Gilbert Islands 270
18. Epilogue 300
19. Appendix 1 309
20. Appendix 2 311
21. Notes 315
22. References 347
23. Contributors 365
24. Index 369