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Destiny's landfall

Rogers, Robert F.

Destiny's landfall a history of Guam / [electronic resource] : Robert F. Rogers. - Rev. ed. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xiii, 391 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-382) and index.

Prologue Guam : center of the First Province -- Aliens 1521-1638 -- The place of before time ancestors 1638-1662 -- Father San Vitores 1662-1672 -- The Spanish conquest 1672-1698 -- Oasis in the ocean 1698-1800 -- Twilight of Pax Hispanica 1800-1898 -- The Anglo-Saxon way 1898-1903 -- Ordered tranquility 1903-1918 -- The quest for identity 1918-1941 -- The way of the Samurai 1941-1944 -- Return of the Americans 1944-1945 -- Gibraltar of the American lake 1945-1950 -- Under the Organic Act 1950-1970 -- Ocean chrysalis 1970-1980 -- Unfinished quests 1980-1990 -- Recession 1990-2003 -- Epilogue Guam : a neocolonial anachronism.

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Guam--History.


Electronic books.

DU647 / .R63 2011

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