Bases of Empire

Catherine A. Lutz is Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies and Anthropology at Brown University. She has authored or edited a number of books, including The Bases of Empire (Pluto, 2008), Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century (Beacon Press, 2001) and Reading National Geographic (University of Chicago Press, 1993).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresPreface, by Cynthia Enloe Introduction: Bases, Empire, and Global Response, by Catherine LutzPart One: Mapping US Power1. U.S. Foreign Military Bases and Military Colonialism: Personal and Analytical Perspectives, by Joseph Gerson 2. U.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, by John Lindsay-Poland 3. US Nuclear Weapons Bases in Europe, by David Heller and Hans Lammerant4. Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site, by Tom EngelhardtPart Two: Global Resistance5. People's Movement Responses to Evolving U.S. Military Activities in the Philippines, by Roland G. Simbulan6. 'Give Us Back Diego Garcia': Unity and Division among Activists in the Indian Ocean, by David Vine and Laura Jeffery7. Environmental Struggle after the Cold War: New Forms of Resistance to the U.S. Military in Vieques, Puerto Rico, by Katherine McCaffrey8. Okinawa: Women's Struggle for Demilitarization, by Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato9. Opposition to the US Military Presence in Turkey in the Context of the Iraq War, by Ayse Gul Altinay and Amy Holmes 10. Resisting Militarization in Hawai`I, by Kyle KajihiroAfterword: Down Here, by Julian AguonNotes on ContributorsIndex

'A powerful assessment of the world wide network of US Military bases. In studying the impact of militarism on people's lives. This book [makes] a major contribution'