Territories And Possessions

Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territories and Possessions written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780791010532
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Territories and Possessions written by John F. Grabowski and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715122
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jada Bradley
Publisher : Mason Crest Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781422233351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Territories and Possessions written by Jada Bradley and published by Mason Crest Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While everyone knows there are fifty states in the United States, not everyone is aware that the U.S. government controls other territories around the world, including the islands of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. These islands all came under U.S. jurisdiction during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Residents of the islands are considered U.S. citizens, but do not yet have all the same rights as residents of U.S. states. Some, such as Puerto Rico, may eventually be admitted as full-fledged states. This book in the LET'S EXPLORE THE STATES series provides information about the major U.S. overseas possessions, from their geography, history, and government to their economy, population demographics, and major cities. Each title in this series contains color photos, maps, flags, state seals, graphics and back matter including: an index, further reading lists for books and internet resources, and a series glossary. Mason Crest's editorial team has placed Key Icons to Look for throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons are as follows: Words to Understand are shown at the front of each chapter with definitions. These words are then used in the prose throughout that chapter, and are emboldened, so that the reader is able to reference back to the definitions- building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars are highlighted graphics with content rich material within that allows readers to build knowledge and broaden their perspectives by weaving together additional information to provide realistic and holistic perspectives. Text Dependent Questions are placed at the end of each chapter. They challenge the reader's comprehension of the chapter they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are provided at the end of each chapter as well and provide readers with suggestions for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis. A Series Glossary of Key Terms is included in the back matter contains terminology used throughout the series. Words found here broaden the reader's knowledge and understanding of terms used in this field.

Author : Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Foreign Commerce Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce and Economic Resources of Our Outlying Territories and Possessions written by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Foreign Commerce Department and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812480221
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territories and Possessions: Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606043564
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territories and Possessions written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Author : Peter C. Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isles of Empire written by Peter C. Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the economic, social, and political histories (and current prospects) of the US's four most important territorial possessions: Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. The wide-ranging discussion, touching upon education, settlement patterns, political expressions of discontent, and other topics, is presented as an effort to determine whether the administration of these possessions is proper. In the final analysis, the author determines, the intangible benefits of dispossession would be better for both rulers and ruled. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Judith Richardson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018525
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Possessions written by Judith Richardson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with an array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place."The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End."-J. J. Benardete, Choice

Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247619
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA written by Doug Mack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.