Pacific Confluence

Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38275-6
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 266 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893–98) is often framed as an inevitable step of American expansion—but it was never a forgone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T. Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state but of the US empire itself. The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state in Hawai'i sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was fought on the global stage. Centered around a series of flash points that exposed the fragility of the imperial project, Pacific Confluence examines how the meeting and mixing of ideas that occurred between Hawaiians and Japanese, white American, and Portuguese transients and settlers led to the dynamic rethinking of the modern nation-state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sasaki, Christen T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note on Hawaiian Language Usage

Introduction

1. Emerging Nations, Emerging Empires: Interimperial Intimacies and Competing Settler Colonialisms in Hawai‘i

2. At the Borders of Nation and State: The 1894 Constitutional Convention

3. How the Portuguese Became White: The Search for Labor and the Cost of Indemnity

4. The Shinshu Maru Affair: Barred Landings and Immigration Detention

5. Historicizing the Homestead in Wahiawa Colony: From “American Family Farm” to Industrial Plantation Economy

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christen T. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.