Books

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by...

The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young son had contracted leprosy, Ko...

“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...

Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrot...

In this second volume of her unique oral history anthology of the Islands, Jane Marshall Goodsill shares the stories of those who perpetuate the tr...

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill by C. Allen Jones and Robert V. Osgood focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawa...

They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii was conceived in 2000 to provide a comprehensive written treatment of the African Americ...

Following on the success of the first volume, Ho'opilipili 'Olelo II provides Hawaiian language learners of all levels with an entertaining new arr...

In a compact and portable format, this dictionary contains more than ten thousand entries, a welcome chapter on grammar explained in non-technical ...

This quick and lively tour of the Hawaiian language begins by uncovering its fascinating and often controversial history. With the help of a clear ...

Recent winner of a prestigious award from the Julia Child Cookbook Awards, presented by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. La...

The remains of Kaniakapupu–King Kamehameha III’s summer residence–bear no traces of the feast that once served ten thousand of his subjects gathere...

The bones of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his successor Kamehameha III had a half-m...

Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years...

[In this] definitive book... [written] in a manner beautifully analogous to her subject, [Moriarty] intertwines multiple strands of narrative, from...

This 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...

This 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...

The enormous impact of sugarcane plantations in Hawai‘i has overshadowed the fact that Native Hawaiians introduced sugarcane to the islands nearly ...

This is a significant update to the highly influential text People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile. Since its publication in 1980,...

“This Treasury offers a wealth of information for everybody…. [It] proves that a surprising number of Hawaiian words from our receding past still h...

This Hawaiian language text, intended for self-learning as well as classroom use, presents the principal conversational and grammatical patterns of...