Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition

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University of Hawaii Press, 30. lip 2011. - Broj stranica: 408
This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.
 

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Center of the First Province
1
CHAPTER 1 Aliens 15211638
6
CHAPTER 2 The Place of Before Time Ancestors 16381662
22
CHAPTER 3 Father San Vitores 16621672
38
CHAPTER 4 The Spanish Conquest 16721698
54
CHAPTER 5 Oasis in the Ocean 16981800
69
CHAPTER 6 Twilight of Pax Hispanica 18001898
84
CHAPTER 7 The AngloSaxon Way 18981903
102
CHAPTER 13 Under the Organic Act 19501970
206
CHAPTER 14 Ocean Chrysalis 19701980
226
CHAPTER 15 Unfinished Quests 19801990
243
CHAPTER 16 Recession 19902003
265
A Neocolonial Anachronism
286
Appendix
289
Abbreviations
293
Notes
297

CHAPTER 8 Ordered Tranquility 19031918
120
CHAPTER 9 The Quest for Identity 19181941
135
CHAPTER 10 The Way of the Samurai 19411944
152
CHAPTER 11 Return of the Americans 19441945
170
CHAPTER 12 Gibraltar of the American Lake 19451950
190
Glossary
351
Bibliography
357
Index
383
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Robert F. Rogers taught history and political science at the University of Guam for many years. He now lives in Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i.

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