FSM Selected Bibliography

Political status
Foreign Relations: Better Accountability Needed Over U.S. Assistance to Micronesia & the Marshall Islands, by Gary L. Jones (Washington, D.C.: United States General Accounting Office 2000)
Compacts of Free Association: Pacific Islands Treaties and Agreements, by Igor Kavass (editor) (Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein 1998) (2 volumes) - "This two volume 1998 compilation brings together the full texts and subsidiary agreements between three sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Palau, and the United States." This may be useful for those who want to have bound volumes handy, rather than locating documents on the Web when needed. Be aware, however, of possible later changes in the documents.
Democracy in the Islands: The Micronesian Plebiscites of 1983, by Austin Ranney and Howard R. Penniman (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1985)
The United States and Japan in the Western Pacific: Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, edited by Grant K. Goodman and Felix Moos (Boulder, Colorado: Westview 1981)
The United States and Micronesia in Free Association: A Chance to Do Better?, by Philip W. Manhard (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University 1979)
^{Top of page} History - the United States Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
	The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: a Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia, by Francis X. Hezel (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002) - many consider Hezel the foremost scholar of Micronesia
National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961-1972), by Howard P. Willens & Deanne C. Siemer (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 2000) - Willens was counsel to the Marianas Political Status Commission in the negotiation of the Covenant.
	Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982, by David Hanlon (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 1998)
The United States and the Pacific Islands, by John C. Dorrance (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger 1992) - Dorrance served as an official of the U.S. Department of State in the Northern Marianas.	^{Top of page}
	The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia, by P. F. Kluge (New York: Random House 1991) - Kluge, a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Micronesia, went on to become a successful writer. This volume sensitively portrays what he found on returning to the islands some years later.
The Americanization of Micronesia: A Study of the Consolidation of U.S. Rule in the Pacific, by Roger Gale (Washington, DC: University Press of America 1979) - this volume is hard to find.
Micronesia under American Rule: An Evaluation of the Strategic Trusteeship (1947-77), by Harold Nufer (Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press 1978)
The American Touch in Micronesia, by David Nevin (New York: W. W. Norton 1977)
Micronesia: Trust Betrayed - Altruism vs. Self Interest in American Foreign Policy, by Donald McHenry (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1975) - McHenry served as United States ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter administration.
Micronesia at the Crossroads: A Reappraisal of the Micronesian Political Dilemma, by Carl Heine (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1974) - Heine, a Marshallese, wrote the only book by a Micronesian that covered this period .
Political Development in Micronesia, by Daniel T. Hughes & Sherwood G. Lingenfelter (editors) (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press 1974)
The Office of Territorial Affairs, by Ruth G. Van Cleve (New York: Praeger 1974) ^{Top of page}
Micronesia and United States Pacific Strategy: A Blueprint for the 1980s, by James H. Webb (New York: Praeger Publishers 1974) - Webb was elected in 2007 to represent Virginia in the United States Senate. This volume is hard to find.
The Great Pacific Rip-Off: Corporate Rape in the Far East, by Robert Wenkam (Chicago: Follett 1974)
National Security and International Trusteeship in the Pacific, by William R. Louis (editor) (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press 1972)
Micronesia: the Breadfruit Revolution, by Robert Wenkam and Byron Baker (Honolulu: East-West Center Press 1971) ^{Top of page}
Microstates and Micronesia: the Problems of America's Pacific Islands and Other Minute Territories, by Stanley A. De Smith (New York: New York University Press 1970)
The Congress of Micronesia: Development of the Legislative Process in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, by Norman Meller and Terza Meller (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1969)
A Reporter in Micronesia, by E. J. Kahn, Jr. (New York: W. W. Norton (1966) - Kahn was a writer for The New Yorker.
United States Naval Administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, by Dorothy Richards (3 volumes) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of Naval Operations 1957-1963) - the definitive official history.
Paradise in Trust: A Report on Americans in Micronesia, 1946-1958, by Robert Trumbull (New York: Sloane 1959) - Trumbull was a reporter for the New York Times.
Pacific Outpost, American Strategy in Guam and Micronesia, by Earl S. Pomeroy (Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press 1951)
^{Top of page} History - the Japanese Mandate
Nan'yō: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945, by Mark R. Peattie (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1988)
Pacific Islands Under Japanese Mandate, by Tadao Yanaihara (London: Oxford University Press 1940)
Japan's Pacific Mandate, by Paul H. Clyde (New York: MacMillan 1935)
^{Top of page} History - Other
	Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia, by Dirk A. Ballendorf and William Wuerch (Scarecrow Press 1994)
Strangers in Their Own Land: A Century of Colonial Rule in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, by Francis X. Hezel (Honolulu: Center for Pacific Island Studies 1995) - as noted above, many consider Hezel the foremost scholar of Micronesia
Island in Trust: Culture Change and Dependence in a Micronesian Economy, by James G. Peoples (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press 1985) - this volume is focused on Kosrae (Kusaie).
The Book of Luelen, by Luelen Bernart; translated and edited by John L. Fischer, Saul H. Riesenberg, and Marjorie G. Whiting (Honolulu: University of Hawaii 1977) - Bernart, a Pohnpeian, originally wrote this history of Pohnpei about 1945, incorporating oral tradition into his account.
^{Top of page} Law
The Law of United States Territories and Affiliated Jurisdictions, by Stanley K. Laughlin, Jr. (Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Cooperative 1995) - this volume is hard to find.
Defining Status: A Comprehensive Analysis of United States-Territorial Relations, by Arnold Leibowitz (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff 1989)
Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific: Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands, and United States Territories, by Daniel P. Ryan (iUniverse 2005)
	^{Top of page} Environmental Law in the South Pacific: Consolidated Report of the Reviews of Environmental Law in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kingdom of Tonga, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Solomon Islands, by Raymond Carol and Ben Boer (Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature 1996)
Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law, by Brian Z. Tamanaha (Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill 1993)
Micronesian Navigation, Island Empires, and Traditional Concepts of Ownership of the Sea, by Masao Nakayama and Fredrick L. Ramp (Saipan, Mariana Islands: Congress of Micronesia 1974) - this volume is very hard to find.
Land in Micronesia and Its Resources: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by E.H. Bryan, Jr. and staff (Honolulu: Pacific Scientific Information Center, Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1970)
^{Top of page} Anthropology
Namoluk Beyond the Reef: The Transformation of a Micronesian Community, by Mac Marshall (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press 2004)
Diplomas and Thatch Houses: Asserting Tradition in a Changing Micronesia, by Juliana Flinn (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 1992) - this volume focuses on Pulap and Puluwat Atolls, outer islands of Chuuk State.
Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island, by Martha C. Ward (Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press 1989) - this volume focuses on Pohnpei.
Traditional Tuna Fishing: A Study at Satawal, Central Caroline Islands, by Robert Gillett (Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Press 1987) - Satawal is in Yap State.
One Man Cannot Rule a Thousand: Fission in a Ponapean Chiefdom, by Glenn Petersen (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 1982)
The Demystification of Yap: Dialectics of Culture on a Micronesian Island, by David Labby (Chicago: University of Chicago 1976)
Yap: Political Leadership and Culture Change in an Island Society, by Sherwood G. Lingenfelter (Honolulu: University of Hawaii 1975)
East Is a Big Bird; Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll, by Thomas Gladwin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1970) ^{Top of page}
The Native Polity of Ponape, by Saul H. Riesenberg (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution 1968)
Porakiet: A Kapingamarangi Colony on Ponape, by Michael D. Lieber (Eugene: University of Oregon 1968)
Kapingamarangi: Social and Religious Life of a Polynesian Atoll, by Kenneth P. Emory (Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1965; reprinted Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus 1986) - Kapingamarangi is located in Pohnpei State.
The Eastern Carolines, by John L. Fischer with the assistance of Ann M. Fischer (New Haven, Connecticut: Pacific Science Board 1957)
An Atoll Culture: Ethnography of Ifaluk in the Central Carolines, by Edwin G. Burrows and Melford E. Spiro (New Haven, Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files 1953; reprinted Westport, Conn.: Greenwood 1970) - Ifaluk is an atoll in Yap State.
Property, Kin, and Community on Truk, by Ward H. Goodenough (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press 1951; reprinted in 1966, with a second edition published in 1978)
^{Top of page} Other
Atlas of Micronesia, by Bruce G. Karolle (second edition; Honolulu, Hawaii: Bess Press 1997)
Tuna Issues and Perspectives in the Pacific Islands Region, edited by David J. Doulman (Honolulu: Pacific Islands Development Program 1987)
A Song for Satawal, by Kenneth Brower (New York: Harper & Row 1983)

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