Author: William Fremont Blackman

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Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781331462279

Excerpt from The Making of Hawaii: A Study in Social Evolution The Hawaiian Islands afford better facilities, perhaps, than any other field for a study of some important social problems. This fact is due to the blending there of the temperate and the tropical climates; the admixture of divers and widely different races; the contact of civilized and nature peoples under unique conditions, and with results in some respects unexampled, and in all respects instructive; the collision of the Christian, the secular, and the pagan, each in very vital forms; the rapid evolution from a primitive to a highly developed condition of the four fundamental and perduring social institutions, the family, the church, the state, and property; the control of industries by corporations, to an unusual degree; the close juxtaposition in recent years of a wealthy few and a poor multitude, - and all this within narrow and manageable limits of time, of area, and of population. This work does not purport to be a history of the Hawaiian people, but a study of their social, political, and moral development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.