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Book Synopsis Territories and Possessions by : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Download or read book Territories and Possessions written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1988 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the North Mariana Islands. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials.
Book Synopsis Outlying Territories and Possessions of the United States by :
Download or read book Outlying Territories and Possessions of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Hide an Empire by : Daniel Immerwahr
Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Book Synopsis Territories and Possessions by : Virginia L Aylesworth
Download or read book Territories and Possessions written by Virginia L Aylesworth and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the North Mariana Islands. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :2 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (267 download)
Book Synopsis Prevent Loss of Title of United States Lands in Territories Or Possessions Through Adverse Possession Or Prescription by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Prevent Loss of Title of United States Lands in Territories Or Possessions Through Adverse Possession Or Prescription written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Territories and Possessions by : John F. Grabowski
Download or read book U.S. Territories and Possessions written by John F. Grabowski and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of American Samoa, Guam, North Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Book Synopsis Surplus Property in United States Territories and Island Possessions by : United States. Territories Office
Download or read book Surplus Property in United States Territories and Island Possessions written by United States. Territories Office and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by : Doug Mack
Download or read book The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA written by Doug Mack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.
Book Synopsis Once Within Borders by : Charles S. Maier
Download or read book Once Within Borders written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.
Book Synopsis Compilation of Sources of Information on the Territories and Outlying Possessions of the United States ... by : United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Compilation of Sources of Information on the Territories and Outlying Possessions of the United States ... written by United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Compilation of Sources of Information on the Territories and Outlying Possessions of the United States ... by : United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Compilation of Sources of Information on the Territories and Outlying Possessions of the United States ... written by United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :2 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Prevent Loss of Title of United States Lands in Territories Or Possessions Through Adverse Possession Or Prescription. March 15 (calendar Day, March 19), 1934. -- Ordered to be Printed by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs
Download or read book Prevent Loss of Title of United States Lands in Territories Or Possessions Through Adverse Possession Or Prescription. March 15 (calendar Day, March 19), 1934. -- Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federal Ground by : Gregory Ablavsky
Download or read book Federal Ground written by Gregory Ablavsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.
Book Synopsis Frontiers of Possession by : Tamar Herzog
Download or read book Frontiers of Possession written by Tamar Herzog and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.
Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Book Synopsis Imperial Archipelago by : Lanny Thompson
Download or read book Imperial Archipelago written by Lanny Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative study of the symbolic representations, both textual and photographic, of Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico that appeared in popular and official publications in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898. It examines the connections between these representations and the forms of rule established by the US in each at the turn of the century.
Book Synopsis Territories and Insular Possessions, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and Virgin Islands; Oct. 1952 by :
Download or read book Territories and Insular Possessions, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and Virgin Islands; Oct. 1952 written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
