California and Hawai''i Bound - U.s. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959

Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Destiny and Devastation, 1840s–1850s
2. Cane and Coolie Labor, 1850s–1880s
3. Emulation and Empire, 1880s–1890s
4. Pineapples and Perils, 1890s–1920s
5. Fantasylands and Frontiers of Leisure, 1900s–1930s
6. Soldiery and Statehood, 1900s–1950s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Henry Knight Lozano is a senior lecturer in American history at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 and the coeditor of The Shadow of Selma.

Summary

Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Knight Lozano, Henry Knight Lozano
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781496212139
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1213-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Studies in Pacific Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous