TY  - GEN
T1  - The island edge of America : a political history of Hawai'i
A1  - Coffman, Tom
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm53481907
AB  - In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.
OP  - 419
NO  - "A latitude 20 book."
CN  - DU627.5 .C64 2003eb
SN  - 0585478856
SN  - 9780585478852
SN  - 9780824864781
SN  - 0824864786
SN  - 0824826256
SN  - 9780824826253
SN  - 0824826620
SN  - 9780824826628
KW  - Hawaii : Politics and government : 1900-1959.
KW  - Hawaii : Politics and government : 1959-
KW  - Hawaii : Politics and government.
KW  - Hawaii : Politique et gouvernement : 1900-1959.
KW  - Hawaii : Politique et gouvernement : 1959-
KW  - Hawaii : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Politieke geschiedenis.
KW  - Since 1900
ER  -