The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawaii

The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawaii
ISBN-10
0824826620
ISBN-13
9780824826628
Category
History
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2003-02-28
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Author
Tom Coffman

Description

Journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a political narrative of twentieth-century Hawai'i. Coffman reinterprets critical events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, World War II, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawai'i legendary Democratic Party, native Hawaiian nationalism. The Hawai'i presented here is a "mixed plate" of complex and conflicting identities (independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation), a wonderfully rich and diverse, and at times troubled, place. Book jacket.

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