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Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :

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Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the North Mariana Islands. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials.

Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0374715122

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Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

Author : Virginia L Aylesworth
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1990-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780613929202

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Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the North Mariana Islands. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials.

Author : John F. Grabowski
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : American Samoa
ISBN : 9780791014004

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Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0393247619

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“To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.

Author : Charles S. Maier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0674973917

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Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.