000 02458pam a2200409 a 4500
001 2004013685
003 DLC
005 20190729103003.0
008 040610s2004 nmuab b s001 0 eng
010 _a 2004013685
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dC#P
_dDLC
020 _a0826336361 (alk. paper)
020 _a082633637X (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm55665367
043 _an-us---
_an-us-ak
_an-us-hi
049 _aEY8Z
050 0 0 _aF909
_b.W53 2004
082 0 0 _a979.8/03
_222
100 1 _aWhitehead, John S.
245 1 0 _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 4 1 _zTable of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013685.html
948 _au175609
949 _hEY8Z
_i33039000757418
596 _a1
903 _a9817
999 _c9817
_d9817