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Completing the union : Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood
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Completing the union : Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood / John S. Whitehead.
ISBN
0826336361 (alk. paper)
082633637X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Physical Description
xvii, 438 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
"The book had its origins in 1981 as an oral history project for the Alaska Statehood Commission"--Acknowledgements.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Far-off and distant territories : Alaska and Hawai'i on the eve of World War II
Hawai'i : a Gibraltar worth defending?
Alaska : a land without people
And the war came: World War II in the territories, 1941-1945
World War II and the transformation of Hawai'i
World War II and the creation of modern Alaska
And the war came again : statehood and the cold war in Alaska and Hawai'i, 1946-1956
The cold war stymies Hawai'i as the forty-ninth state, 1946-1950
The continuing transformation of Hawai'i, 1950-1956
The cold war activates Alaska, 1946-1954
The Alaska legends : the constitutional convention and the Tennessee Plan, 1955-1956
The needle and the thread : Alaska and Hawai'i complete the union, 1957-1959
We're in : Alaska takes the lead as the forty-ninth state, 1957-1959
The last territorial delegate and the admission of Hawai'i, 1957-1959
Epilogue : the legacy of the fifty-star flag
Journey's end : a personal note.
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