History of the Hawaiian Kingdom
History of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Author: Norris Whitfield Potter

Publisher: Bess Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781573061506

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- Chapters covering unification of the kingdom, contact with westerners, the Mahele, the influence of the sugar industry, and the overthrow of the monarchy, rewritten for easier readability - New color illustrations, including paintings by Herb Kawainui K ne, never-before-published portraits of the monarchs, vintage postcards, and then and now photographs - Photographs, drawings, and primary source documents from local archives and collections - Challenging vocabulary defined in the text margins - Appendixes covering the formation of the islands, Hawai'i's geography, and Polynesian migration - A timeline and a bibliography

Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution
Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution

Author: Alan C. Ziegler

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2002-09-30

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 082484243X

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Not since Willam A. Bryan's 1915 landmark compendium, Hawaiian Natural History, has there been a single-volume work that offers such extensive coverage of this complex but fascinating subject. Illustrated with more than two dozen color plates and a hundred photographs and line drawings, Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution updates both the earlier publication and subsequent works by compiling and synthesizing in a uniform and accessible fashion the widely scattered information now available. Readers can trace the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago through the book's twenty-eight chapters or focus on specific topics such as island formation by plate tectonics, plant and animal evolution, flightless birds and their fossil sites, Polynesian migrational history and ecology, the effects of humans and exotic animals on the environment, current conservation efforts, and the contributions of the many naturalists who visited the islands over the centuries and the stories behind their discoveries. An extensive annotated bibliography and a list of audio-visual materials will help readers locate additional sources of information.

Shoal of Time
Shoal of Time

Author: Gavan Daws

Publisher:

Published: 1974-06

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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The arrival of Captain Cook and the debates concerning the territory's admission to statehood are given equal attention in this detailed history.

Dismembering Lahui
Dismembering Lahui

Author: Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2002-06-30

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780824825492

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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.

A Child's History of Hawaii
A Child's History of Hawaii

Author: Edward J. McGrath

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9780834830271

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This book about Hawaii is written in the words and pictures of the children of Hawaii.

The Island Edge of America
The Island Edge of America

Author: Tom Coffman

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2003-02-28

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780824826628

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In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.

Shaping History
Shaping History

Author: Helen Geracimos Chapin

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1996-07-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0824864271

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Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are often considered a secondary source of information, but in their heyday Hawai‘i’s newspapers formed one of the most diversified, vigorous, and influential presses in the world. In this original and timely work, Helen Geracimos Chapin charts the role Hawai‘i’s newspapers played in shaping major historic events in the islands and how the rise of the newspaper abetted the rise of American influence in Hawai‘i. Shaping History is based on a wide selection of written and oral sources, including extensive interviews with journalists and others working in the newspaper industry. Students of journalism and Hawaiian history will find this comprehensive history of Hawai‘i’s newspapers especially valuable.