Completing the union Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood
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| Sprache: | English |
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Albuquerque
Univ. of New Mexico Press
2004
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| Schriftenreihe: | Histories of the American frontier
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- 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.