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Selected Bibliography on Guam

So far as I know, the works cited in this bibliography are not available online.  Many are out of print.  Links are given to Alibris, through which interested readers may be able to purchase the work.

My categories are arbitrary: yesterday's history determines today's political status; today's law is influenced by the culture described in anthropological studies; culture and history are intertwined. Regard the categories as nothing more than pointers.

Political status

History

Law

Anthropology

Other

Political status

Guam 's Commonwealth Effort, 1987-1988, by Robert F. Rogers (Mangilao, Guam: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam 1988)
Issues in Guam 's Political Development: The Chamorro Perspective, by Guam Political Status Education Coordinating Commission  (Hagatña, Guam: the Commission 1994) 
The Office of Territorial Affairs, by Ruth G. Van Cleve (New York: Praeger 1974)

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History

A History of Guam, by Lawrence J.Cunningham and Janice J. Beaty (Bess Press 2001) 

Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, by Robert F. Rogers (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 1995) 

Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia, by Dirk A. Ballendorf and William Wuerch (Scarecrow Press 1994)  
Hestorian Taotao Tano': History of the Chamorro People (Hale'-Ta), by Guam Political Status Education Coordinating Commission (Hagatña, Guam: the Commission 1993)   
Guahan Guam: The History of Our Island, by Pedro Cruz Sanchez (Sanchez Publishing 1987) - the author was a president of the University of Guam
Problems in Paradise: The View From Government House, by Richard B. Lowe (New York: Pageant Press 1967) - the author was governor of Guam from 1956-1959
A Complete History of Guam, by Paul Carano & Pedro C. Sanchez (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle 1965)  
Guam, Past and Present, by Charles Beardsley (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle 1964) 
Guam, U.S.A.: Birth of a Territory, by Russell L. Stevens (Honolulu: Tongg Publishing 1956)
Pacific Outpost, American Strategy in Guam and Micronesia, by Earl S. Pomeroy (Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press 1951)  

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Law

The Law of United States Territories and Affiliated Jurisdictions, by Stanley K. Laughlin, Jr. (Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Cooperative 1995) - this volume seems very hard to find.
Defining Status: A Comprehensive Analysis of United States-Territorial Relations, by Arnold Leibowitz (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff 1989)

 

 

Guam's Trial of the Century: News, Hegemony, and Rumor in an American Colony, by Peter Debenedittis (Greenwood Publishing 1993) - the trial of the late Ricardo J. Bordallo, governor of Guam from 1982 to 1986.
Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific: Federated States of Micronesia, the Republics of Palau and the Marshall Islands, and United States Territories, by Daniel P. Ryan (iUniverse 2005) 

 

 

A Study and Review of Laws Pertaining to Alien Investment on Guam, by Stanford Research Institute (Menlo Park, California: the Institute 1974)

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Anthropology

Guam and Its People: a Study of Culture Change and Colonial Education, by Laura Thompson (American Council Institute of Pacific Relations 1942)

Other

Atlas of Micronesia, by Bruce G. Karolle (second edition; Honolulu, Hawaii: Bess Press 1997)
Guam, by William Lutz (Langhorne, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House 1987) 
Tuna Issues and Perspectives in the Pacific Islands Region, edited by David J. Doulman (Honolulu: Pacific Islands Development Program 1987)

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Island Jurisdictions Index: Guam

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