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001 2004013685
003 DLC
005 20060905162623.0
008 040610s2004 nmuab b s001 0 eng
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020 $a0826336361 (alk. paper)
020 $a082633637X (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm55665367
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050 00 $aF909$b.W53 2004
082 00 $a979.8/03$222
100 1 $aWhitehead, John S.
245 10 $aCompleting the union :$bAlaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood /$cJohn S. Whitehead.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$c2004.
300 $axvii, 438 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aHistories of the American frontier
500 $a"The book had its origins in 1981 as an oral history project for the Alaska Statehood Commission"--Acknowledgements.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 366-426) and index.
505 0 $aFar-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 Alaska-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.
651 0 $aAlaska$xPolitics and government$y1867-1959.
651 0 $aHawaii$xPolitics and government$y1900-1959.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zAlaska.
650 0 $aConstitutional history$zHawaii.
650 0 $aStatehood (American politics)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013685.html