"This well-researched, provocative study, written for specialists rather than general readers, will be of considerable interest to students of ethnography, public history, and museum studies. Highly recommended."
C. J. Weeks
Choice
"Geoffrey M. White has written a book that goes far beyond the events and commemoration of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the opening salvo that determined ... Read morethe US entry into World War II. White’s book addresses some of the most vital questions of remembering the past with a prose that is engaging, accessible, always pregnant with possibilities for new insights and with wide-ranging applications."
Gretchen Engle Schafft
Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
"Geoffrey M. White’s study of memorial practices at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, makes a significant and unique contribution to the study of commemorating the past."
John Bodnar
Journal of American History
"This is a book with many stories to tell.  . . . White’s writing is masterful; demonstrating a rare gift for rendering complex themes and complicating received categories in flowing, accessible prose. There’s a surfeit of riches here difficult to do justice to, with nearly every page holding some nugget worthy of quotation or comment. Students of history and memory, museology, World War II, film and race, tourism and other themes too numerous to list will find exploring this book time well spent."
Andrew J. Connelly
Pacific Affairs
"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is a welcome contribution to the field of historical reconciliation, which is broadening its horizons beyond the confines of the West. . . . It is a thoughtful ethnography that illuminates the shifts in meaning, purpose, institutional conditions, and civic engagement as framed by the overarching understanding that the memorial we see today is a result of long-term negotiations, intense emotional dialogues, and conflicting memories surrounding the events of 7 December 1945 in a complex historical setting."
Akiko Hashimoto
Monumenta Nipponica
"A model study in the field of public history."
James I. Matray
Pacific Historical Review
"Memorializing Pearl Harbor is unparalleled in its contribution to the study of collective memory of World War II in the Pacific."
Kate C. Lemay
Reviews in American History
"An ambitious melding of ethnographic and historiographical writing and an important contribution to current discussions of memory and representation of the past."
Matthew Penney
The Public Historian
"A well-written and well-researched book that examines the changing meanings and representations of the Pearl Harbor Memorial. White’s study underscores multiple, yet often conflicting, remembrances of the Pearl Harbor attack and the challenges that educators face. . . . The volume is thought provoking, and anyone who is interested in war and memory, the Pearl Harbor attack, peace education, historical reconciliation, and public history will probably find the book insightful and enlightening."
Takashi Yoshida
Anthropos
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