Overview
- Situates American Samoa’s historical and political importance within the U.S. empire building of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Expands the U.S. empire building scholarship to include and recognize American Samoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects
- Evidences Americanization patterns, inequitable power relations between Native Samoans and the military, intercultural incompetency by the military court system, and the impacts these issues have had to the cornerstones of the Native Samoan culture: communal lands and fa’amatai
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This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions between indigenous customary land tenure practices in American Sāmoa and Western notions of individual private ownership. It also highlights how unusual the status of American Sāmoa is in its relationship with the U.S., namely as the only “unincorporated” and “unorganized” overseas territory, and aims to expand the U.S. empire-building scholarship to include and recognize American Sāmoa into the vernacular of Americanization projects.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Line-Noue Memea Kruse is Assistant Professor of Pacific History at University of Hawai'i at Hilo, US.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa
Book Subtitle: Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories
Authors: Line-Noue Memea Kruse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69971-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69970-7Published: 15 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88870-5Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69971-4Published: 06 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Governance and Government, International Organization, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law