Pacific Confluence : Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i Paperback / softback
by Christen T. Sasaki
Part of the American Crossroads series
Paperback / softback
Description
The 1898 annexation of Hawai?i to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion—but it was never a foregone conclusion.
By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T.
Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state but of the US empire itself.
The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state in Hawai?i sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was contested on the global stage.
Centered around a series of flash points that exposed the fragility of the imperial project, Pacific Confluence examines how the meeting and mixing of ideas that occurred between Hawaiians and Japanese, white American, and Portuguese transients and settlers led to the dynamic rethinking of the modern nation-state.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages, 12 b-w figures. 3 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:29/11/2022
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- ISBN:9780520382763
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages, 12 b-w figures. 3 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:29/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520382763
