The not-quite states of America : dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA / Doug Mack.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 306 pages : maps ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393247602
- 0393247600
- 909/.0971273Â 23
- F965Â .M33 2017
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Book | Chanute Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Chanute Public Library | Adult Books | 909 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34316002497238 | ||
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-287) and index.
Introduction -- 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 Samoa -- Offshoring the American experience: Guam -- Land of opportunity: the Northern Mariana Islands -- Be true to your home: Puerto Rico -- Epilogue: The future of empire.
Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose their blends of culture against the expansionist views of the Founding Fathers.
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