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Settled c. 2000 B.C.; first European navigator to visit the island was Magellan in 1521. Claimed by
Spain in 1565; colonial rule
established in 1668. Administratively the Ladrones or Marianas, of which Guam was the most important island, were under the
government of the (Spanish) Philippines.
Spain ceded Guam to the United States in 1898. In 1899 Spain sold the other islands belonging to the Marianas or Ladrones to Germany; see under Northern Mariana Islands. Timeline : Guam Students' Paper : Jeon, Hyeong Mi, Analysis of Ethnological Encyclopedias, based on the Example of the Ladrone islands (Marianas) (2010) |
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| DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
| Country Profiles | Modern |
from BBC Country Profiles;
from Wikipedia;
from CIA World Factbook from Index Mundi Guam, by Jane Resture |
| Historical |
Guam at the Turn of the Century, from
Public Bookshelf |
| Links | General |
from dmoz Category : Guam, from Wikipedia |
| on History |
Category : History of Guam, from Wikipedia |
| Organizations |
Guam Historic Resources Division Pacific Islands Museums and Cultural Institutions Association (PIMA) Pacific Islands Study Circle (Philately) Pacific History Association |
| Historical Dictionaries |
Archaeopedia New Zealand Guampedia |
| Timelines |
Guam History Timeline, from Guampedia |
| Accounts of History |
Article : History of Guam, from Wikipedia |
| Politics |
Political Resources on the Web : Guam Governments on the WWW : Guam; Article Politics of Guam, from Wikipedia |
| Military |
| Economy & Finances |
Article Economy of Guam, from Wikipedia |
| Ethnography |
Languages of Guam (2), from Ethnologue World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples : Guam |
| Religion |
Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Guam, from Kirken i Norge Category Religion in Guam, from Wikipedia |
| Local History |
| Institutions |
Guam, from Airline History Structurae : Guam |
| Biographies |
| Others |
Oceania Ecoregion, from WWF |
| WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
| Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
World Statesmen : Guam, by Ben Cahoon |
| Population Figures |
Historical Population Statistics : Guam, from Population Statistics,
by Jan Lahmeyer |
| Documents | Historical Newspapers |
Search Papers Past
(New Zealand Newspapers 1839-1920) Search Newspapers SG (Singapore Newspapers 1831-2006) Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 Life Magazine 1936-1972, GB, 469 entries for Guam |
| Modern Newspapers |
links from Online Newspapers |
| Image Databanks |
Systematic Collections General |
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Systematic Collections Specialist |
| Accidental Collections |
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Universal Collections Items on Guam |
License Plates : Guam; from
License Plates of the World Images of Guam, from Pacific Picture Agency Airline Timetable Images : Guam |
| Archival Deposits |
| Constitutions, Laws |
| Treaties |
| Consular Reports |
| Document Collections |
| Historical Maps |
Guam Maps, from Perry Castaneda Map Collection, UTexas |
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Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
Secular |
Article Guam, from the EB 1911 |
| Religious |
| Economic |
| Geographical |
Mariana or Ladrone Islands, pp.1107-1120 in A.G. Findlay,
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, 1851, GB |
| Historical |
| Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
| Tour Guides, Travelogues |
| Institutions | Archives, Musea, Libraries |
Guam's Military Museum, from Off Island Guam Museum, from Guam Portal |
| Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW; Coat of Arms, from
International Civic Heraldry Anthem, from David's National Anthem Reference Page |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Bibliographies | general |
Search ISBN Database |
| on Guam | survey of bibliographies |
| bibliographic database |
| general bibliographies |
pp.136-171 in W.L. Wuerch, D.A. Ballendorf, Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia, Lanham MD : Scarecrow 1994 [G] |
| annual bibliographies |
| specialist bibliographies |
| serial publications |
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general bibliographies Guam entries |
| booksellers |
| Online Libraries | general |
Google Books;
Internet Archives;
Gutenberg Library Online;
HathiTrust;
Gallica Biblioteca Digital Hispanica; Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes |
| on Guam | Guam, Digital Micronesia |
| Online Journals | On Oceania |
| Historiography |
Article : Pacific Islands Historiography, by K.R. Howe, pp.685-687, in vol.2 of A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, NY 1998 [G] |
| General Accounts | On Oceania |
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol.25, pp.277-279 Article Pacific Islands : Guam. KMLA Lib.Sign. R 032 B862h v.25 |
| On Guam |
| Historical Dictionaries |
Robert D. Craig and Franklin P. King, Historical Dictionary of Oceania, Westport CT : Greenwood 1981 [G] |
| Historical Atlas |
Colin McEvedy, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Pacific,
London : Penguin 1998, 120 pp. [G] |
| Statistical Data |
IHS : B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750-2000, London : Palgrave 2003 [G] |
