Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion—but it was never a

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Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i 9780520382770
Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i 9780520382770

The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893–98) is often framed as an inev

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Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War 9780813587462
Hollywood's Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War 9780813587462

Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with

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Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas 9781611487565, 9781611487558
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas 9781611487565, 9781611487558

Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary no

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Angels Over the Altar: Christian Folk Art in Hawaii and the South Seas 9780824884833
Angels Over the Altar: Christian Folk Art in Hawaii and the South Seas 9780824884833

The Painted Church at Honaunau is a major tourist attraction on the Island of Hawaii, but, aside from tourists and resid

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A Pacific Industry: The History of Pineapple Canning in Hawaii 9780755698400, 9781848855960
A Pacific Industry: The History of Pineapple Canning in Hawaii 9780755698400, 9781848855960

The Hawaiian pineapple industry emerged in the late nineteenth century as part of an attempt to diversify the Hawaiian e

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Travels in Hawaii 9780824843663
Travels in Hawaii 9780824843663

In 1899 a chartered yacht, the Casco, brought to Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. The writer was then alr

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Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War 9780824862756
Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War 9780824862756

Hawai‘i at the Crossroads tells the story of Hawai‘i’s role in the emergence of Japanese cultural and political internat

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific 9780691257761
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific 9780691257761

This is the first field guide to the identification of the birds of the islands of the tropical Pacific, including the H

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Hurricane Over the Jungle: 120 Days Fighting the Japanese Onslaught in 1942 9781783035120, 1783035129
Hurricane Over the Jungle: 120 Days Fighting the Japanese Onslaught in 1942 9781783035120, 1783035129

The author and WWII fighter pilot offers a firsthand look at an RAF squadron's harrowing fate in this candid combat

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Jeeps Over the Pacific 4-89425-039-X
Jeeps Over the Pacific 4-89425-039-X

The follow-on book by the author of JEEP JEEP JEEP. It focusses just onphotos of jeeps used in the Pacific theatre. Chap

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