| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Pathways to the Present: U. S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific. By Mansel G. Blackford. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $48.00.)

The transformation of the nations and peoples in and around the Pacific was dramatic in the last century. Mansel Blackford's book "explores how and why people worked in the ways they did to influence their economic, social and physical environments" in a region buffeted by change (p. 3). His equivocal thesis is centered on the increased U. S. engagement in a spectrum of ways after World War II. Blackford collects case studies, counting Hawai'i; the technology centers of Seattle and Silicon Valley along the U. S. Pacific Coast; Alaska's Aleutian Islands; Hiroshima and Okinawa; as well as Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa. Each follows a similar narrative pattern: new dynamics brought by the increased economic activity (including the surge of tourism in the region) or the mushrooming U. S. military commitment played on existing "traditional" structures. A new synthesis resulted, often expressed through a new environmentalism aimed at containing the problems spawned by this growth, which, in some places, became a means for Native groups to gain political leverage.

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