The island edge of America : a political history of Hawai'i /

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 kingdo...

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Autor principal: Coffman, Tom
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press ©2003.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqrr1
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Edge
  • Ch. 2 Tensions of Annexation
  • Ch. 3 Japanese Migration
  • Ch. 4 Prewar Change
  • Ch. 5 When Time Began
  • Ch. 6 ESC and the Modern Democratic Party
  • Ch. 7 Island Democratic Party
  • Ch. 8 State Like No Other
  • Ch. 9 In the Middle
  • Ch. 10 First Japanese American Governor
  • Ch. 11 Special Place
  • Ch. 12 Pacific and Asia
  • Ch. 13 Native Hawaiians in the New Hawai'i
  • Ch. 14 Democratic Reinventions: Status Quo and Change
  • Ch. 15 Conclusion.