Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition 9780824860974

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Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition 9780824860974

Table of contents :
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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