Beyond Hawai'i : native labor in the Pacific world / Gregory Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenthal, Gregory Samantha, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous labor--History.

Indigenous labor.

Hawaiians--Pacific Area--History.

Hawaiians.

Hawaii--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.

Hawaii.

Hawaii--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai'i to work on ships at sea and in na 'aina 'e (foreign lands)-on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawai'i tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawai'i is the first book to argue that indigenous labor-more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases-unified the Pacific World.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Boki's Predicament: Sandalwood and the China Trade

2. Make's Dance: Migrant Workers and Migratory Animals

3. Kealoha in the Arctic: Whale Blubber and Human Bodies

4. Kailiopio and the Tropicbird: Life and Labor on a Guano Island

5. Nahoa's Tears: Gold, Dreams, and Diaspora in California

6. Beckwith's Pilikia: "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku Plantation

Epilogue: Legacies of Capitalism and Colonialism

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9780520967960

0520967968

OCLC:

1021066646