The Not-Quite States of America : Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
Mack, Doug2017
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Everyone knows that America is 50 states and....some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Carribean, the not-quite-states - American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands - and their 4 million people are often forgotten, even by most Americans. So how did these territories come to be part of the United States? What are they like? And why aren't they states?
Main title:
Author:
Mack, Doug, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Collation:
xxviii, 306 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
A Very Brief Note on the Territories and Their Various Designations --THE EMPIRE'S NEW CLOTHES: The Virgin Islands of the United States-- FOREIGN IN A DOMESTIC SENSE: American SamoaOFFSHORING THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: GuamLAND OF OPPORTUNITY: The Northern Mariana IslandsBE TRUE TO YOUR HOME: Puerto Rico --THE FUTURE OF EMPIRE.
ISBN:
9780393247602 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
909.0971273909
LC class:
F965
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3982877
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