Lauren Hirshberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 2201869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Hirshberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirshberg |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSHBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Regis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonialism, Capitalism, and Militarism under Martial Law in Hawaiʻi
Mapping American innocence in the Pacific: Cold War empire, militarization and suburbanization at Kwajalein Atoll
This article represents a historical and ethnographic reflection on the process of researching an active US military base in the Marshall Islands, while offering analysis of the spatial and cultural forms of suburbanization on the island that emerged during the Cold War. Kwajalein Island served as a support base for the nuclear testing campaign in the Northern Marshall Islands (1946–1958). At that campaign's conclusion, the island was transformed…
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific
"Suburban Empire takes readers to the U.S. missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar U.S. imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland U.S. as local and global iterations of U.S. empire to…
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State by David Vine
Domestic Containment in the Marshall Islands: Making a Home for Cold War Workers in the US Imperial Pacific
During the Cold War, the US military transformed the Marshallese Island Kwajalein into a missile range to test intercontinental ballistic missiles. To recruit American knowledge workers who would move their families to the central Pacific to operate the base, the military erected a suburban landscape on Kwajalein. Fulfillment of the promise to American knowledge workers that they could find home on Kwajalein entailed not only erecting a refuge mi…
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
Navigating sovereignty under a Cold War military industrial colonial complex: US military empire and Marshallese decolonization’
As World War II unsettled the global balance of power ushering in a wave of decolonization, the postwar period also saw the expansion of US military imperialism into Micronesia. In this central Pacific region, a new colonial era began rooted in US strategic concerns and mandated under a 1947 United Nations Trusteeship Agreement. During the Cold War, the United States buttressed its nuclear arsenal by testing its deadliest weapons of mass destruct…
Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual culture and American empire in the twentieth century
Across the World with the Johnsons is a cultural history that traces the rise to celebrity status of filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson and the impact of their films, which chronicle their ‘adventur
Nuclear Families: (Re)producing 1950s Suburban America in the Marshall Islands
Nuclear Families: (Re)producing 1950s Suburban America in the Marshall Islands
Mapping American innocence in the Pacific: Cold War empire, militarization and suburbanization at Kwajalein Atoll
This article represents a historical and ethnographic reflection on the process of researching an active US military base in the Marshall Islands, while offering analysis of the spatial and cultural forms of suburbanization on the island that emerged during the Cold War. Kwajalein Island served as a support base for the nuclear testing campaign in the Northern Marshall Islands (1946–1958). At that campaign's conclusion, the island was transformed…
Nuclear Families: (Re)producing 1950s Suburban America in the Marshall Islands
Across the World with the Johnsons: Visual culture and American empire in the twentieth century
Across the World with the Johnsons is a cultural history that traces the rise to celebrity status of filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson and the impact of their films, which chronicle their ‘adventur
Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
Navigating sovereignty under a Cold War military industrial colonial complex: US military empire and Marshallese decolonization’
As World War II unsettled the global balance of power ushering in a wave of decolonization, the postwar period also saw the expansion of US military imperialism into Micronesia. In this central Pacific region, a new colonial era began rooted in US strategic concerns and mandated under a 1947 United Nations Trusteeship Agreement. During the Cold War, the United States buttressed its nuclear arsenal by testing its deadliest weapons of mass destruct…
Domestic Containment in the Marshall Islands: Making a Home for Cold War Workers in the US Imperial Pacific
During the Cold War, the US military transformed the Marshallese Island Kwajalein into a missile range to test intercontinental ballistic missiles. To recruit American knowledge workers who would move their families to the central Pacific to operate the base, the military erected a suburban landscape on Kwajalein. Fulfillment of the promise to American knowledge workers that they could find home on Kwajalein entailed not only erecting a refuge mi…
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State by David Vine
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific
"Suburban Empire takes readers to the U.S. missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar U.S. imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous Marshallese within Kwajalein Atoll mirrors the segregation and spatial politics of the mainland U.S. as local and global iterations of U.S. empire to…
Mapping American innocence in the Pacific: Cold War empire, militarization and suburbanization at Kwajalein Atoll
This article represents a historical and ethnographic reflection on the process of researching an active US military base in the Marshall Islands, while offering analysis of the spatial and cultural forms of suburbanization on the island that emerged during the Cold War. Kwajalein Island served as a support base for the nuclear testing campaign in the Northern Marshall Islands (1946–1958). At that campaign's conclusion, the island was transformed…
Colonialism, Capitalism, and Militarism under Martial Law in Hawaiʻi
History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Empire (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works)