Kingdom and the Republic - Sovereign Hawai?i and the Early United States

In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century, reconfiguring familiar histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawaiʻi.

List of contents

Introduction. He Ao ¿¿lelo: A World of Words

Chapter 1. The Political Economy of Mana: Obligation, Debt, and Trade

Chapter 2. Creating an Island Imaginary: Hawai¿i's American Origins

Chapter 3. The Isles Shall Wait for His Law: Planting the American Congregational Mission

Chapter 4. Hawaiian Women, Kapu, and the Emergence of K¿n¿wai

Chapter 5. Libel, Law, and Justice Before the ¿Aha ¿¿lelo

Afterword

Appendix. Textual Sources and Research Methods

Glossary

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Noelani Arista is Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Summary

In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century, reconfiguring familiar histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawai'i.

Product details

• Authors: Noelani Arista
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780812224917
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2491-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous