Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Years
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View full details(From the book jacket) At the end of the 1800s, when Oberlin graduate Ida May Pope accepted a teaching job at Kawaiaha‘o Seminary, a boarding schoo...
View full detailsThe remains of Kaniakapupu–King Kamehameha III’s summer residence–bear no traces of the feast that once served ten thousand of his subjects gathere...
View full details“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideratio...
View full detailsWithin 10 years, Opukaha’ia went from being an orphaned isolated, disheartened, Hawaiian speaking, idol worshipper at Kealakekua to becoming a worl...
View full detailsTracing the lives of some two hundred Native Hawaiian teachers, preachers, pastors, and missionaries, Na Kahu provides new historical perspectives ...
View full detailsIn a compact and portable format, this dictionary contains more than ten thousand entries, a welcome chapter on grammar explained in non-technical ...
View full details[In this] definitive book... [written] in a manner beautifully analogous to her subject, [Moriarty] intertwines multiple strands of narrative, from...
View full detailsDavid W. Forbes, Ralph Thomas Kam, Thomas A. Woods, Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi ...
View full detailsThis is a significant update to the highly influential text People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile. Since its publication in 1980,...
View full detailsThis book is intended as a general introduction to the ethnobotany of the Hawaiians and as such it presumes, on the part of the reader, little back...
View full detailsThis book by W. Arthur Whistler is about the useful plants of the Pacific islanders, with special emphasis on plants used by Polynesians. A total o...
View full detailsPreparing the Way A Pictorial History for the Hawai’i Mission Bicentennial 1820-2020 Featuring Images of Events Held in New England in 2019 Christo...
View full detailsReclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of ...
View full details\When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II co...
View full details‘With this remarkable book, Kealani Cook dramatically expands our understanding of the Native Hawaiian and Oceanic past and speaks powerfully to th...
View full detailsMany people know about Hawai‘i’s volcanic crater, Diamond Head, but very few are aware of the crater’s colorful past. After Diamond Head burst from...
View full detailsMerging scholarly research and biographical narrative, She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton reveals the true life of a freed and highly educated slave...
View full detailsGavan Daws’ remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal...
View full detailsThis Hawaiian language text, intended for self-learning as well as classroom use, presents the principal conversational and grammatical patterns of...
View full detailsQueen Liliuokalani, the eighth monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, is known and honored throughout the world, even though she was never ceremonially c...
View full detailsA major segment of The Early Mapping of Hawai’i examines the contribution of American missionaries in mapping Hawai’i. Mostly produced at the semin...
View full detailsThe life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jers...
View full detailsRecent winner of a prestigious award from the Julia Child Cookbook Awards, presented by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. La...
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