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Completing the union

Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood

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Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood

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438

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Completing the union: Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood
2004, University of New Mexico Press
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Table of 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 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-426) and index.
"The book had its origins in 1981 as an oral history project for the Alaska Statehood Commission"--Acknowledgements.

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Albuquerque
Series
Histories of the American frontier

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.8/03
Library of Congress
F909 .W53 2004, F909.W53 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 438 p. :
Number of pages
438

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OL3293763M
Internet Archive
completinguniona0000whit
ISBN 10
0826336361, 082633637X
LCCN
2004013685
OCLC/WorldCat
55665367
Library Thing
3330083
Goodreads
3291398
340038

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