Pacific Confluence

Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

Christen T. Sasaki (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38275-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	American Crossroads ; 69
Zusatzinfo	12 b-w figures. 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-38275-7 / 0520382757
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38275-6 / 9780520382756
Zustand	Neuware