9781442215627 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 20, 2012, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Resistant Islands offers a comprehensive overview of Okinawan history over half a millennium from the Ryukyu Kingdom to the present, focusing especially on the colonization by Japan, the islands' disastrous fate during World War II, and their subsequent and continuing subordination to US military purpose.