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Connecting the Kingdom - Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840 (Paperback)
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Connecting the Kingdom - Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840 (Paperback)
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In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of
insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from
sources mostly ignored by colonial and post-colonial historians
alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western
sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills
presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian-owned schooners,
brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes. While these vessels have often
been dismissed as examples of chiefly folly, Mills highlights their
significance in Hawaiʻi’s rapidly evolving monarchy, and aptly
demonstrates how the monarchy’s own nineteenth-century sailing
fleet facilitated fundamental transformations of interisland
tributary systems, alliance building, exchange systems, and
emergent forms of Indigenous capitalism. Part One covers broad
trends in Hawaiʻi’s changing maritime traditions, beginning with
the evolution of Hawaiian archaic states in the precontact era.
Mills argues that Indigenous trends towards political
intensification under the predecessors to Kamehameha I set the
stage for Kamehameha’s own rapid appropriation of Western sailing
vessels. From the first procurement of a Western-style vessel in
1790 through the beginning of the constitutional monarchy in 1840,
these vessels were part of a nuanced strategy that promoted a
diverse revenue base for the monarchy and developed greater
international parity in Hawaiʻi’s foreign diplomacy. Part Two
presents the histories of the sixty vessels owned by Hawaiian
chiefs between 1790 and 1840, discussing their significance,
origin, physical attributes, ownership, procurement, and purpose.
Using newspapers and other concurrent sources, Mills uncovers
little-known details of more than 2,000 voyages around and between
the islands and to distant parts of the Pacific. His meticulous
documentation of each ship’s itinerary is a valuable resource for
tracking the movement of chiefs and commoners between islands as
they engaged in the business of building a newly interconnected
Hawaiian nation. Part Three connects these previously neglected
maritime stories with an expanding body of historical treatments of
Hawaiian agency. Readers with enthusiasm for life in
nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi will appreciate the entertaining and,
at times, deeply moving glimpses into the daily lives of
individuals in Hawaiʻi’s pluralistic port communities.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Peter R. Mills
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9398-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9398-0 |
Barcode: |
9780824893989 |
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