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Destiny's Landfall : A History of Guam, Revised Edition / Robert F. Rogers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 62 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824833343
  • 9780824860974
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.7 22
LOC classification:
  • DU647 .R63 2011
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE. Guam: Center of the First Province -- 1. Aliens 1521-1638 -- 2. The Place of Before Time Ancestors 1638-1662 -- 3. Father San Vitores 1662-1672 -- 4. The Spanish Conquest 1672-1698 -- 5. Oasis in the Ocean 1698-1800 -- 6. Twilight of Pax Hispanica 1800-1898 -- 7. The Anglo-Saxon Way 1898-1903 -- 8. Ordered Tranquility 1903-1918 -- 9. The Quest for Identity 1918-1941 -- 10. The Way of the Samurai 1941-1944 -- 11. Return of the Americans 1944-1945 -- 12. Gibraltar of the American Lake 1945-1950 -- 13. Under the Organic Act 1950-1970 -- 14. Ocean Chrysalis 1970-1980 -- 15. Unfinished Quests 1980-1990 -- 16. Recession 1990-2003 -- EPILOGUE. Guam: A Neocolonial Anachronism -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE. Guam: Center of the First Province -- 1. Aliens 1521-1638 -- 2. The Place of Before Time Ancestors 1638-1662 -- 3. Father San Vitores 1662-1672 -- 4. The Spanish Conquest 1672-1698 -- 5. Oasis in the Ocean 1698-1800 -- 6. Twilight of Pax Hispanica 1800-1898 -- 7. The Anglo-Saxon Way 1898-1903 -- 8. Ordered Tranquility 1903-1918 -- 9. The Quest for Identity 1918-1941 -- 10. The Way of the Samurai 1941-1944 -- 11. Return of the Americans 1944-1945 -- 12. Gibraltar of the American Lake 1945-1950 -- 13. Under the Organic Act 1950-1970 -- 14. Ocean Chrysalis 1970-1980 -- 15. Unfinished Quests 1980-1990 -- 16. Recession 1990-2003 -- EPILOGUE. Guam: A Neocolonial Anachronism -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)