Pacific Confluence : Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sasaki, Christen T.

Series:

American Crossroads

American Crossroads ; v.69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Hawaii--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Settler colonialism--Hawaii--19th century.

Settler colonialism.

Hawaii--Politics and government--19th century.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion--but it was never a foregone 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 Hawaiʻi sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was contested 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.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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

Series List.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Sasaki, Christen T. Pacific Confluence

ISBN:

9780520382770

OCLC:

1347025887