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US Virgin Islands

Denmark's islands, bought for $25 million in the shadow of World War I.

Unincorporated US territory to the present.

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Further reading

• Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean Carrie Gibson · 2014

  A sweeping Caribbean history covering the Danish West Indies and their 1917 sale to the US (broad regional context).

• A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present Jan Rogozinski · 1992

  Single-volume regional history covering the Danish West Indies through their 1917 sale to the United States.

Sources

• United States Virgin Islands — Wikipedia