Author | : Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A detailed analysis of the Mahele, a pivotal period in the history of Hawaii.
Author | : Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A detailed analysis of the Mahele, a pivotal period in the history of Hawaii.
Author | : Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2002-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824845404 |
Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawaii from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887, which effectively placed political power in the kingdom in the hands of white businessmen. Making extensive use of legislative texts, contemporary newspapers, and important works by Hawaiian historians and others, Osorio plots the course of events that transformed Hawaii from a traditional subsistence economy to a modern nation, taking into account the many individuals nearly forgotten by history who wrestled with each new political and social change. A final poignant chapter links past events with the struggle for Hawaiian sovereignty today.
Author | : Paul R. Spickard |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415950022 |
'Race and Nation' offers a comparison of the various racial & ethnic systems that have developed around the world, in locations that include China, New Zealand, Eritrea & Jamaica.
Author | : Gaye Chan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2006-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824865529 |
Waikiki:A History of Forgetting and Remembering presents a compelling cultural and environmental history of the area, exploring its place not only in the popular imagination, but also through the experiences of those who lived there. Employing a wide range of primary and secondary sources—including historical texts and photographs, government documents, newspaper accounts, posters, advertisements, and personal interviews—an artist and a cultural historian join forces to reveal how rich agricultural sites and sacred places were transformed into one of the world’s most famous vacation destinations. The story of Waikiki’s conversion from a vital self-sufficient community to a tourist dystopia is one of colonial oppression and unchecked capitalist development, both of which have fundamentally transformed all of Hawai‘i. Colonialism and capitalism have not only changed the look and function of the landscape, but also how Native Hawaiians, immigrants, settlers, and visitors interact with one another and with the islands’ natural resources. The book’s creators counter this narrative of displacement and destruction with stories—less known or forgotten—of resistance and protest.
Author | : Gordon Fraser |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812252926 |
In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.
Author | : Cristina Bacchilega |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780812239751 |
Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? This is the question that Cristina Bacchilega poses in her examination of how stories labeled as Hawaiian "legends" have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences. With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.
Author | : Noenoe K. Silva |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822333494 |
DIVAn historical account of native Hawaiian encounters with and resistance to American colonialism, based on little-read Hawaiian-language sources./div
Author | : Gregory Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520967968 |
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in na ‘aina ‘e (foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawai‘i tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawai‘i is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World.