The Not-Quite States of America : dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA
(2017)
By:
Mack, Doug
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
909.097127/MACK,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxviii, 306 pages : maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393247602, 0393247600
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A very brief note on the territories and their various designations -- The empire's new clothes: the Virgin Islands of the United States -- Foreign in a domestic sense: American Samoa -- Offshoring the American experience: Guam -- Land of opportunity: the Northern Mariana Islands -- Be true to your home: Puerto Rico -- The future of empire
Traces the author's explorations of U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands to juxtapose their blends of culture against the expansionist views of the Founding Fathers