Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (50 page)

East Point (capital of Diego Garcia),
38

Ebeye Island,
67
,
222
n49

Economist
,
80
,
81

Egmont Atoll,
21

Eichengruen, Elly,
157

Eichengruen, Erwin,
157

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
58

El Salvador,
49

Emden
,
34

empire(s),
18
,
189

dynamics of,
19

European territorial,
246
n24

importance of military bases to security of,
42

research concerning,
210
–11n49.
See also
U.S. Empire

Enewetak Atoll,
51
,
64

Enloe, Cynthia,
245
n15

Enthoven, Alain,
96

Eriksen, Thomas H.,
139

Estabrook, Robert,
81
–82

“ethnographies of empire,”
210
–11n49

Exxon-Mobil,
189

Farmer, Paul,
210
–11n49,
201

Farquhar Island,
228
n12

Ferguson, Niall,
43

Ford, Gerald R.,
121

Ford administration, response to questions concerning the Chagossian deportation,
122
–23

Foreign Affairs
,
17

Fort Bragg (North Carolina),
209
–10n48,
223
n52

France,
20
–21,
53

declining colonial presence of,
59
,
60

Franco-Mauritians,
21
,
24
,
25

French Company of the Indies,
21

Friedman, Hal,
52

Friendly, Alfred,
80

Fullilove, Mindy,
154
,
155
–56,
162

Galapagos Islands,
50
,
63

Germany,
53

Gerson, Joseph,
55

Ghost Plane
(Grey),
9

Gifford, Richard,
169
,
175
,
176
,
242
n14

Gillem, Mark,
182
,
186

Gore-Booth, Paul,
91

Gough, Kathleen,
210
–11n49

Greatbatch, Bruce,
108
,
113
,
114

Greenfield, Jeff,
80

Greenhill, D. A.,
91

Greenland,
50
,
53
,
67

Gregory, Derek,
208
n28

Grey, Stephen,
9

Guadalcanal,
53

Guam,
43
,
48
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
65
,
184
,
187
,
246
–47n31

guano,
29
,
114

Guantánamo Bay naval base,
49
,
190

Guatemala,
49

Gulf of Guinea, U.S. oil imports from,
188

Hack, Susan,
236
n2

Haiti,
49
,
50

Halberstam, David,
72
,
224
n8

Hamilton, Charles,
15

Hamilton, Lee H.,
123
–25

Harvey, Philip,
12

Hawai‘i,
246
–47n31

annexation of,
48

possession of Pearl Harbor by the United States,
65

seizure of Koho‘olawe Island by the U.S. Navy,
65

Hayden, Michael,
10

Hébert, F. Edward,
52

Hilaire, Oscar,
31

Hmong refugees, Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome among,
156
–57

Ho, Enseng,
190

Hochschild, Adam,
116
–17,
184

Holloway, James, III,
171

Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century
(Lutz),
209
–10n48

Honduras,
49

Horsman, Reginald,
47

“humanpolitik,”
192

“I Accept My Mizer” (Jean-Roy and Toombo Bancoult),
158
–59

“I Am Alone on the Earth” (Mimose Bancoult Furcy),
142
–43

“I Was Thirteen Years Old” (Mimose Bancoult Furcy),
161

Iceland,
50
,
53

Ignatieff, Michael,
43

Ignatius, Paul R.,
97

Ilois (the Islanders),
3
,
29
,
81
,
115
–16,
135
–36,
122
,
137
,
140
.
See also
Chagossians

imperialism,
18
,
89
,
189
,
210
–11n49

definition of,
216
–17n9

economic,
43

the “imperial present,”
246
–47n31

indentured laborers (
engages
): European,
25

Indian,
27
–28,
138
.
See also
Indians, south; Indo-Mauritians

India,
53
,
56
,
107
,
237
n23.
See also
Kisan people

Indians, south,
27
,
29
–30

Indian Ocean,
41

Anglo-French competition for control of,
21

British influence in,
56

as a “British lake,”
23

islands of,
5
,
20

U.S. expansion into,
231
n20.
See also
British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT);
specifically listed individual islands

Indian Ocean Task Force,
75
–76

as the “Concord Squadron,”
76

Indo-Mauritians,
61
,
131
,
138
–39

International Money Fund (IMF),
43
,
46

Inughuits,
16
,
67

Iraq War,
4
,
16
,
194

role of Diego Garcia in,
9
,
189
–90

Isle of Farquhar
,
113
,
114

Italy,
53

Jackson, Henry,
102

Jacques, Ernestine Marie Joseph,
23

Jagers, Naomi,
197

Japan,
53
,
60
,
65
,
183

rebuilding of after World War II,
57

Jeffery, Laura,
171
–72

John, Caspar,
68
–69

Johnson, Chalmers,
185

Johnson, Lyndon,
81
,
86
,
221
n33,
224
n8

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS),
69
,
70
,
76
,
82
,
84