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Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Areas of the United States, the States, and the Territories written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247619
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
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.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE STATES, AND THE TERRITORIES. written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715122
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
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.
Author : Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621697312
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Territories of the United States written by Department of English Language and Literature Linda Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the development of the United States territories and the political struggles that occurred as modern America was beginning to take shape.
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428189761
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (897 download)
Download or read book The Areas of the United States, the States, and the Territories (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Gannett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Areas of the United States, the States, and the Territories The following report aims to give in brief form such advance results as are available from a detailed investigation of the geology of the Goldfield and Bullfrog districts carried out during the autumn and winter of 1905 - 6. Complete reports on these districts are now in preparation and will be published as soon as possible. In the present bulletin are included also such reconnaissance notes as were made on outlying districts visited in connection with the principal work of the field season. Messrs. W. H. Emmons and G. H. Garrey, who had efficiently assisted in the work throughout the season, were instructed at its close to visit the Manhattan district, mainly for the purpose of ascertaining the area that should be included in future mapping and study of this new gold field. Their notes on the geology of the dis trict are published as a separate section in this report. During the summer and autumn of 1905 a topographic map, covering square miles of southern Nevada and including the Goldfield and Bullfrog districts, was made by Messrs. R. H. Chapman and B. D. Stewart, topographers. A copy of this map accompanies this report (pl. I). Mr. S. H. Ball was attached to Mr. Chapman's party as geologist, and the results of his reconnaissance of the whole region, made under the writer's general supervision, will be published as a separate bulletin (no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Gregory Ablavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190905697
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
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.
Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Organic Acts for the Territories of the United States with Notes Theron, Compiled from the Statutes at Large of the United States written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004641394
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Defining Status written by Arnold H. Leibowitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Mark Twain Media
ISBN 13 : 1622236106
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (222 download)
Download or read book U.S. States and Territories Maps, Grades 5 - 8 written by and published by Mark Twain Media. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. States and Territories Maps complements any social studies curriculum by offering high-quality maps and worksheets that reinforce necessary geographical knowledge. Maps and blank worksheets are included for all 50 states and the five U.S. territories, as well as for the United States as a whole. Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.
Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160831188
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Learn about the United States written by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Author : Steven Hahn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221200
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book A Nation Without Borders written by Steven Hahn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and, throughout, is internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of “sectionalism,” emphasizing the national footing of slavery and the struggle between the northeast and Mississippi Valley for continental supremacy. It places the Civil War in the context of many domestic rebellions against state authority, including those of Native Americans. It fully incorporates the trans-Mississippi west, suggesting the importance of the Pacific to the imperial vision of political leaders and of the west as a proving ground for later imperial projects overseas. It reconfigures the history of capitalism, insisting on the centrality of state formation and slave emancipation to its consolidation. And it identifies a sweeping era of “reconstructions” in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that simultaneously laid the foundations for corporate liberalism and social democracy. The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. From an agricultural society with a weak central government, the United States became an urban and industrial society in which government assumed a greater and greater role in the framing of social and economic life. As the book ends, the United States, now a global economic and political power, encounters massive warfare between imperial powers in Europe and a massive revolution on its southern border―the remarkable Mexican Revolution―which together brought the nineteenth century to a close while marking the important themes of the twentieth.
Author : Larry D. Ball
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826306173
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912 written by Larry D. Ball and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pathbreaking classic on law enforcement on the frontier of the American West.
Author : Gordon Fraser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297903
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Star Territory written by Gordon Fraser and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
Author : Daniel A. Cotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946074256
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Chief Justices written by Daniel A. Cotter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1789, seventeen men have held the Chief Justice position. The First three held the position for a total of eleven years, and the next two (Marshall and Taney) held the Chief Justice position for the next sixty-three years (the two longest chiefs in our history). This book seeks to examine the position of Chief Justice more closely, to describe the position's origins and duties, and explore the court under each of the seventeen chiefs. Exploration includes the background and careers of the chiefs before becoming Chief Justice, discusses the cultural times and puts their rise and tenure in our nation's context, while discussing some of the key associate justices who sat with each of the seventeen. Each chapter also focuses on some key decisions of the Chief Justices' courts.
Author : Christina Duffy Burnett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381168
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Foreign in a Domestic Sense written by Christina Duffy Burnett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship. More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States’ unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these “marginal” regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large. This book does more than simply fill a glaring omission in the study of race, cultural identity, and the Constitution; it also makes a crucial contribution to the study of American federalism, serves as a foundation for substantive debate on Puerto Rico’s status, and meets an urgent need for dialogue on territorial status between the mainlandd and the territories. Contributors. José Julián Álvarez González, Roberto Aponte Toro, Christina Duffy Burnett, José A. Cabranes, Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Gerald L. Neuman, Angel R. Oquendo, Juan Perea, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Rogers M. Smith, E. Robert Statham Jr., Brook Thomas, Richard Thornburgh, Juan R. Torruella, José Trías Monge, Mark Tushnet, Mark Weiner
Author : Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America: Kentucky ; Massachusetts written by Francis Newton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
