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Destiny's landfall : a history of Guam /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogers, Robert F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Guam > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.