The island edge of America : a political history of Hawai'i / Tom Coffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffman, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaii--Politics and government--1900-1959.

Hawaii.

Politics and government.

Hawaii--Politics and government--1959-.

Hawaii--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2003]

Summary:

In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawai'i. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following state-hood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, post-war labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawai'i's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawai'i carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawai'i of complex and conflicting identities -- independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation -- a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place.

With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawai'i's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Edge 1

Chapter 2 The Tensions of Annexation 7

Chapter 3 The Japanese Migration 15

Chapter 4 Prewar Change 37

Chapter 5 When Time Began 59

Chapter 6 The ESC and the Modern Democratic Party 103

Chapter 7 The Island Democratic Party 136

Chapter 8 A State Like No Other 160

Chapter 9 In the Middle 185

Chapter 10 The First Japanese American Governor 207

Chapter 11 Special Place 227

Chapter 12 The Pacific and Asia 268

Chapter 13 Native Hawaiians in the New Hawai'i 289

Chapter 14 Democratic Reinventions: Status Quo and Change 322.

Notes:

"A latitude 20 book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.

ISBN:

0824826256

0824826620

OCLC:

49903215