a ISBN 0-8263-36361 (alk. paper-)

a ISBN 0-8263-3637X (pbk. : alk. paper-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number F909

b Item number W53 2004

a Dewey Classification 979.8

a Personal name Whitehead John S

a Title Completing the union :

b Remainder of title Alaska, Hawai'i, and the battle for statehood /

c Statement of responsibility, etc John S. Whitehead.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Albuquerque :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of New Mexico Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004.

a Extent xvii, 438 p. :

b Other physical details ill., maps ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Title Histories of the American frontier.

a General note "The book had its origins in 1981 as an oral history project for the Alaska Statehood Commission"--Acknowledgements.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note 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.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constitutional history

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Constitutional history

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Statehood American politics

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013685.html