Marshall Islands Bibliography
History since 1945

compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann





The Trust Territory Period (1945-1989)



Coulter, John Wesley
1957 The Pacific Dependencies of the United States. New York: MacMillan.


Courson, M
1970Beautiful downtown Wake Island. Beacon, Magazine of Hawaii 10(7), 19-23.
The article discusses the improvements of the vegatation of Wake Atoll as a result of a planting programme by the University of Hawaii.


de Smith, Stanley A
1970(Ed.). Microstates and Micronesia: Problems of America's Pacific Islands and Other Minute Territories. New York: New York University Press, 1970.


Dorrance, John C
1992The United States and the Pacific Islands. Westport, CT: Praeger.


Fallan, Joseph E
1991Federal Policy and U.S. Territories: the Political Restructuring of the United States of America. Pacific Affairs 64, (Spring 1991): 23-41.


Gale, R. W
1979The Americanization of Micronesia: A Study of the Consolidation of U.S. Rule in the Pacific. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, 1979


Heine, Carl
1974 Micronesia at the Crossroads: A Reappraisal of the Micronesian Political Dilemma. Honolulu: East-West Center, University Press of Hawaii.


Hobbs, W.H
1945The fortress islands of the Pacific. Ann Arbor, Mi.:J.V.Edwards
Assessment of the U.S.Pacific possessions and their strategic role following World War II.


Lee, G
1980 Men and Island Matched, Isolated and Detached. New York Times 25 July 1980, Page 25.


McHenry, D.F
1975Micronesia: Trust Betrayed. Altruism versus Self-interest in American Foreign Policy. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.


Nufer, Harold
1978Micronesia Under American Rule: An Evaluation of the Strategic Trusteeship (1947-1977). Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press,.


Pratt, J.W
1964America's Colonial Experiment. How the U.S. gained, governed and in part gave away a colonial empire. Gloucester, Mass.: P.Smith.


Reid, C.F
1942Overseas America: our territorial outposts. New York: Foreign Policy Association.


Richard, D.E
1957The United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Vol. 1: The Wartime Military Government Period 1942-1945. Washington, DC: U.S. General Printing Office.


Richard, D.E
1957The United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Vol. 2: The Post-war Military Government Era 1945-1947.. Washington, DC: U.S. General Printing Office.


Richard, D.E
1957The United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Vol. 3: The Trusteeship Period 1947-1951. Washington, DC: U.S. General Printing Office.


Smith, Gary
1991Micronesia: Decolonization and US Military Interests in the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. Canberra: Australian National University.


Smith, Roy
1991Micronesian Trust Territories: Imperialism Continues? Pacific Review 4: 36-44.


Smith, S.A. de
1970Microstates and Micronesia. Problems of America's Pacific Islands and other minute territories. New York: New York University Press.


Williams, Ian
1991Freedom at Last! the UN Security Council Has Cut US Colonial Ties with Three Pacific Trust Territories. Pacific Islands Monthly 61, (February 1991): 10-12.


Witze, C
1957 Marines put HR2S in operational status. Aviation Weekly 66, 62-63.


Worden, W.L
1956Exiles on a pinpoint. Saturday Evening Post 278, 22-23.


U.S. Department of State
1952Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

195Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1954Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1955Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1956Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1957Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1958Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1959Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1960Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1961Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1962Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

196Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1964Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1965Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1966Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1967Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1968Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.

1969Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Annual Report to the United Nations. Washington, U.S. Department of State.


United States Navy
1946Report to United Nations on Guam, American Samoa and other island possessions administered by the Navy Department. July 1946. OPNAV P22-100. Washington, D.C.: Navy Department, Office of Naval Operations (Island Government).

1947U.S. Navy, Military Government Unit, Majuro, Marshall Islands. Military Government Quarterly Reports, June 1947. Majuro: U.S. Navy, Military Government Unit.

Nuclear Testing and Aftermath



Dibblin, Jane
1990Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders. New York: New Amsterdam Books.


Firth, Stewart
1987Nuclear Playground. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.


Jones, Peter D
1988From Bikini to Belau: the Nuclear Colonization of the Pacific. London: War Resisters International.


Kiste, Robert C
1968Kili Island: A study of the relocation of the Ex-Bikini Marshallese. Eugene, Oregon: Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.


Kriste, Robert C
1974The Bikinians: A Study in Forced Migration. Menlo Park, CA: Cummings Publishing Co.


Kiste, Robert C
1987History of the People of Enewetak Atoll in Devaney, D.N., E.S.Reese, B.L.Burch & P.Helfrich, The Natural History of Enewetak Atoll. Volume I. The Ecosystem: Environments, Biotas, and Processes. Oak Ridge, Ten.: U.S.Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Pp. 17 - 26.


North, David
1994 America's Painful Atomic Secrets. Pacific Islands Monthly 64, (April): 11-13.


North, David
1994Cashing In on Nuclear Waste. Pacific Islands Monthly 64, (June): 11-13.


North, David
1994Cure the `Dutch Disease' or Else. Pacific Islands Monthly 64, (August): 24-5.


O'Rourke, Dennis
1985Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age. Documentary Film produced by O'Rourke & Associates, Filmakers, Australia. Distributed by Kino International.


Softkey International
1995The Atomic Age: The History, Science and Consequences of the Nuclear Age. Computer Software CD ROM. Macintosh/Windows,


Trumbull, Robert
1982An Island People Still Exiled by Nuclear Age: Natives of Bikini Want Only to Return to Their Pacific Paradise; but Contamination from U.S. Atomic Tests Puts Their Dream Out of Reach. U S News & World Report, October 18: 48-50.


United States House Committee on Natural Resources-Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
1994Radiation Exposure from Pacific Nuclear Tests: Oversight Hearing, February 24, 1994. 2d sess, 103d Cong.


United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
1991 Resettlement of Rongelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands: Hearing, September 19, 1991. Senate hearing 102-316, 1st sess., 102d Cong. Washington: GPO.


Weisgall, Jonathan M
1980 The Nuclear Nomads of Bikini. Foreign Policy, : 74-98.


Weisgall, Jonathan M
1994Operation Crossroads. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press.


Yamazaki, James N. and Fleming, Louis B
1995Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands. Medicine and global survival 2(2): 101-nn.

The Marshalls since independence



Bettis, Leland, Ketson Johnson, Samuel F. McPhetres, Donald R. Shuster, and Roniti Teiwaki
1994Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1992 to 30 June 1993. Contemporary Pacific 6, (Spring 1994): 163-176.


Johnson, Giff, Samuel McPhetres, Julie Olsson, Donald R. Shuster, and Roniti Teiwaki
1993 Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1991 to 30 June 1992,Contemporary Pacific 5, (Spring 1993): 133-149.


Johnson, Giff
1984Collision Course at Kwajalein: Marshall Islanders in the Shadow of the Bomb. Honolulu: Pacific Concerns Resource Center, 1984.


Mason, Leonard
1989 A Marshallese Nation Emerges from the Political Fragmentation of American Micronesia. Pacific Studies 13, (November 1989): 1-46.


McMullen, Ronald
1983 Lilliput Revisited: The Case for Free Association. Journal of Public and International Affairs 4, (Fall 1983): 50-66.


McPhetres, Samuel F., Julie Olsson, and Donald R. Shuster
1994Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 1993 to 30 June 1994 Contemporary Pacific 7, (Spring 1995): 125-137.


Meller, Norman
1986Constitutionalism in Micronesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.


Meller, Norman
1969The Congress of Micronesia: Development of the Legislative Process in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1969.


Michal, Edward J
1993 Protected States: The Political Status of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Contemporary Pacific 5, (Fall 1993): 303-332.


North, David
1994The Sovereignty Business: What Do Island Governments Get Out of It? Pacific Islands Monthly 64, (July 1994): 8-9.


Schellhorn, Kai M
1991Politics in the South Pacific Region. Contemporary Southeast Asia 13, (September 1991): 188-199.


Senese, Donald J
1993The United States in Micronesia: From Trust Territory to Freely Associated States. Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 18, (Winter 1993): 413-26.




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