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Author Mack, Doug, author.

Title The Not-Quite States of America : dispatches from the territories and other far-flung outposts of the USA / Doug Mack.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  909.09 MACK    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  909 MAC    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  909.0971 MACK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Adult Department  909 MAC    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.0971 MACK    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  909 MACK    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  909.0971 MAC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  972.95 M19    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  972.95 MACK    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  909.097 MAC    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxviii, 306 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Mack, Doug -- Travel.
United States -- Territories and possessions -- History.
United States -- Insular possessions -- History.
United States -- Territories and possessions -- Description and travel.
United States -- Insular possessions -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Travel writing.
ISBN 9780393247602 (hardcover)
0393247600 (hardcover)
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