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A shark going Inland is my chief
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook's encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.
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California and Hawai'i Bound
Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers,
politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai'i
together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement
and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai'i Bound
Henry Knight Lozano explores how these settlers and boosters
promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places
and sites for U.S. settler colonialism, and how this relationship
reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West
from the 1840s to the 1950s. The growing ties of promotion and
development between the two places also fostered the promotion of
\"perils\" over this transpacific relationship, from Native Hawaiians
who opposed U.S. settler colonialism to many West Coast Americans
who articulated social and racial dangers from closer bonds with
Hawai'i, illustrating how U.S. promotional expansionism in the
Pacific existed alongside defensive peril in the complicated
visions of Americanization that linked California and Hawai'i.
California and Hawai'i Bound demonstrates how the settler
colonial discourses of Americanization that connected California
and Hawai'i evolved and refracted alongside socioeconomic
developments and native resistance, during a time when U.S.
territorial expansion, transoceanic settlement and tourism, and
capitalist investment reconstructed both the American West and the
eastern Pacific.
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California and Hawai'i Bound
Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
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Beyond Ke'Eaumoku
This book reclaims Korean history in Hawaii through the examination of works by three local writers of Korean descent: Margaret Pai, Ty Pak, and Gary Pak.
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Historical metaphors and mythical realities
Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation
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The US military in Hawai'i : colonialism, memory, and resistance
An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands.
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