Facing the spears of change : the life and legacy of John Papa ʻIʻi / Marie Alohalani Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Marie Alohalani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ii, John Papa.

Statesmen--Hawaii--Biography.

Statesmen.

Historians--Hawaii--Biography.

Historians.

Educators--Hawaii--Biography.

Educators.

Hawaii--Politics and government--To 1893.

Hawaii.

Politics and government.

Hawaii--History--To 1893.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]

Summary:

Facing the Spears of Change takes a close look at the extraordinary life of John Papa 'I'i. Over the years, 'I'i faced, many personal and political changes and challenges in rapid succession, which he skillfully parried or seized, then used to fend off other attacks. He began serving in the household of Kamehameha I as an attendant in 1810, at the age of ten, and became highly familiar with the inner workings of the royal household. His early service took place in a time when ali'i nui (the highest-ranking Hawahans) were considered divine and surrounded with [$$$](sacred prohibitions); breaking a kapu pertaining to an ali'i meant death for the transgressor. He went on to become an influential statesman, privy to the shifting modes of governance adopted by the Hawaiian kingdom. 'I'i's intelligence and his good standing with those he served resulted in a great degree of influence within the Hawaiian government, with his fellow Hawaiians, and with the missionaries residing in the Hawaiian Islands. As a privileged spectator and key participant, his published accounts of ali'i and his insights into early nineteenth-century Hawaiian cultural-religious practices are unsurpassed. In this groundbreaking work, Marie Alohalani Brown offers an elegantly written and compelling portrait of an important historical figure in nineteenth-century Hawaii. Brown's extensive archival research using Hawaiian and English language primary sources from the 1800a allows access to information which would be otherwise unknown but to a very small circle of researchers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Puka a mohala ka pua: the child appears and blossoms

He huliau, he au hou: a time of change, a new era

Pua ka loea kalaiaupuni: a statesman emerges

Kau mai ka molehulehu: twilight descends

Ka pale ʻana i na ihe hope loa: parrying the last spears

He Kanaenae no Ioane Kaneiakama Papa ʻIʻi: words in praise of John Kaneiakama Papa ʻIʻi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824858483

0824858484

9780824858490

0824858492

OCLC:

933722571