Pacific Confluence - Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (Paperback)

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. 

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Crossroads, 69
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Christen T Sasaki
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-38276-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-520-38276-5
Barcode:	9780520382763

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