Description: "This book utilizes the concept of settler militarism to investigate how the island of Guêahan was transformed from a pre-World War II coaling station into a major U.S. military site that was used to wage military operations during the Cold War"--
Review Quotes:
Flores's work essentially documents the beginnings of the history of US land takings on Guam, including forms of coercion, deception, and intimidation employed to dispossess native Chamorros from their most valued and valuable resource.... This book does justice to two sides of a complicated--still percolating--story.
-- "American Historical Review"