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10 produkter
Nation Within
The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
Av Tom Coffman
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen …
Nation Within
The History of the American Occupation of Hawai''i
Av Tom Coffman
E-bok, 2016
503 kr
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In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen …
Island Edge of America
A Political History of Hawai'i
Av Tom Coffman
Häftad, 2003
254 kr
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In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawai'i. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian …
Inclusion
How Hawai'i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America
Av Tom Coffman
Häftad, 2021
280 kr
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Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated? At the root of the …
Ted Sullivan, Barnacle of Baseball
The Life of the Prolific League Founder, Scout, Manager and Unrivaled Huckster
Häftad, 2021
506 kr
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In his day, perhaps no one in baseball was better known than Irish-born Timothy Paul "Ted" Sullivan. For 50 years, America's sportswriters sang his praises, genuflected to his genius and bought his blarney by the barrel. Damon Runyon dubbed him "The Celebrated Carpetbagger of Baseball." Cunning, …
I Respectfully Dissent
The Biography of Edward H. Nakamura
Av Tom Coffman
Häftad, 2012
165 kr
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Tom Coffman’s portrait of Edward Nakamura is both insightful biography and engrossing political history. The arc of the story may sound familiar (the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the GI Bill, Statehood), but it is strewn with surprise, resulting from Nakamura’s unshakable creed and unique angle of …
Tadaima! I Am Home
A Transnational Family History
Av Tom Coffman, Russell Leong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
541 kr
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Tadaima! I Am Home unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting “tadaima!” takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place or return …
Tadaima! I Am Home
A Transnational Family History
Av Tom Coffman, Russell Leong m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
215 kr
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Tadaima! I Am Home unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting “tadaima!” takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place or return …
Inclusion
How Hawai'i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America
Av Tom Coffman
Inbunden, 2021
927 kr
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Following December 7, 1941, when the United States government interned 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry evicted from scattered settlements throughout the West Coast states, why was a much larger number concentrated in the Hawaiian Islands war zone not similarly incarcerated? At the root of the …
