Destiny's landfall
Subtitle: a history of Guam
By: Robert F. Rogers
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780824833343
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-382) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue Guam : center of the First Province; title: Aliens 1521-1638; title: The place of before time ancestors 1638-1662; title: Father San Vitores 1662-1672; title: The Spanish conquest 1672-1698; title: Oasis in the ocean 1698-1800; title: Twilight of Pax Hispanica 1800-1898; title: The Anglo-Saxon way 1898-1903; title: Ordered tranquility 1903-1918; title: The quest for identity 1918-1941; title: The way of the Samurai 1941-1944; title: Return of the Americans 1944-1945; title: Gibraltar of the American lake 1945-1950; title: Under the Organic Act 1950-1970; title: Ocean chrysalis 1970-1980; title: Unfinished quests 1980-1990; title: Recession 1990-2003; title: Epilogue Guam : a neocolonial anachronism.