Paradise of the Pacific - Approaching Hawaii

Informationen zum Autor Susanna Moore is the author of the novels The Life of Objects , The Big Girls , One Last Look , In the Cut , Sleeping Beauties , The Whiteness of Bones , and My Old Sweetheart , and two books of nonfiction, Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i and I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i . She is from Hawaii. Klappentext In Paradise of the Pacific! Susanna Moore! pieces together the dramatic story of Hawai'i - a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition! in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo! without a currency or a written language! was confronted with the ritualised world of capitalism! Western education! and Christian values. Zusammenfassung In Paradise of the Pacific! Susanna Moore! pieces together the dramatic story of Hawai'i - a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition! in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo! without a currency or a written language! was confronted with the ritualised world of capitalism! Western education! and Christian values.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Moore
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2016
• EAN: 9780374536176
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53617-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ozeanien, USA Westen, Australische und Pazifische Geschichte, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), HISTORY / Oceania