Studies in Pacific Worlds – serie
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19 produkter
Sea Otters
A History
Inbunden, 2018
529 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world’s largest oceanscape before the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American …
Hawaiian by Birth
Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
Av Joy Schulz
Inbunden, 2017
587 kr
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2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History AssociationTwelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had …
How to Reach Japan by Subway
America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965
Inbunden, 2018
587 kr
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Japan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in the …
Hawaiian by Birth
Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
Av Joy Schulz
E-bok, 2017
305 kr
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2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History AssociationTwelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had …
Of Love and War
Pacific Brides of World War II
Inbunden, 2023
645 kr
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Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island …
California and Hawai'i Bound
U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959
Inbunden, 2021
761 kr
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Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers, politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai‘i together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai‘i Bound Henry Knight Lozano explores how these …
Sea Otters
A History
E-bok, 2018
258 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world’s largest oceanscape before the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American …
Sea Otters
A History
E-bok, 2018
258 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world’s largest oceanscape before the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American …
Ties That Bind
People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905–1965
Av Hannah Kim
Inbunden, 2025
761 kr
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Ties That Bind narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans were aware of Korea’s geopolitical significance. …
Imperial Zions
Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
Inbunden, 2022
1120 kr
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In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an …
Hawaiian by Birth
Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
Av Joy Schulz
Häftad, 2020
341 kr
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2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History AssociationTwelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had …
Raising the Redwood Curtain
Labor Landscapes and Community Violence in a Pacific Littoral
Inbunden, 2025
819 kr
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Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how shifting land use practices and exploitative labor patterns spurred by the colonial settlement of the Pacific world influenced the genocide of California’s Native people, anti-Asian campaigns, and the oppression of eastern European immigrant workers. By …
Sea Otters
A History
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world’s largest oceanscape before the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American …
When Women Ruled the Pacific
Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai'i
Av Joy Schulz
Inbunden, 2023
587 kr
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Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawai‘i, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters, utilizing their power amid the destabilizing …
Imperial Zions
Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
Häftad, 2022
245 kr
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In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an …
Forward Without Fear
Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900–1941
Av Derek Taira
Inbunden, 2024
761 kr
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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, …
Dreams of a Young Republic
The American Vincentians in China
Inbunden, 2025
739 kr
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The Congregation of the Mission, a Catholic order known as the Vincentians after their founder Saint Vincent de Paul, began missionary work in China in 1699. First run by French priests and nuns, American priests took over a large vicariate in the south of China in 1921. French envoys of …
Forward Without Fear
Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900–1941
Av Derek Taira
E-bok, 2024
678 kr
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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, …
This World in a Teacup
Credit, Taste, and Power in the U.S.-China Tea Trade, 1784–1911
Av Dan Du
Inbunden, 2026
819 kr
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Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, making the young country a coffee-drinking nation. In truth, Americans did not give up their tea so easily, and the United States grew to be the …
