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Shaping history : the role of newspapers in Hawai'i /

Just a decade after the first printing press arrived in Honolulu in 1820, American Protestant missionaries produced the first newspaper in the islands. More than a thousand daily, weekly, or monthly papers in nine different languages have appeared since then. Today they are often considered a second...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chapin, Helen Geracimos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I: "To Exhibit Truth in an Attractive Form": An Establishment Press Arrives--1834-1850
  • 1. Ka Lama: "The Light" Is Brought to Hawai'i
  • 2. The Solemn Responsibility of Dissent
  • 3. The Polynesian: In the Service of America and the Kingdom
  • 4. The English Flag and the English Language
  • 5. God Gives Way to Mammon: The Mahele of 1848
  • PART II:"Fiery Polemic Contests" for the Public's Support-- 1850-1887
  • 6. The Honolulu Times Welcomes the City of Honolulu
  • 7. The Chinese Arrive
  • 8. A Prophet Without Profit: Fornander Topples Judd
  • 9. The Advertiser Enters History
  • 10. A Hawaiian Nationalist Press Is Born
  • 11. "A New Era Has Dawned": Sugar Is King
  • 12. The Politics of Health
  • PART III: Nationalists versus the Oligarchy: An Uneven Battle--1887-1899
  • 13. A Pan-Pacific Dream
  • 14. Robert Wilcox, "the Napoleon of Printers' Lane"
  • 15. Revolution and the Suppression of Freedom of Speech
  • 16. The Republic Burns Down Chinatown
  • PART IV:"Here to Stay": A U.S. Territory-- 1900-1941
  • 17. Annexation and the Pacific Cable
  • 18. The 1909 Strike and the Japanese Language Press
  • 19. Respected Residents Become the Enemy: World War I and the Germans
  • 20. Suppressing the News and Contributing to a Massacre
  • 21. The Three Rs--Reading, 'Riting, and Racism
  • 22. "Reclaiming" Waikîkî for the "Aloha Spirit"
  • 23. Getting Away With Murder: The Massie Case
  • 24. Hilo's "Bloody Monday": The Tribune-Herald and the Voice of Labor
  • PART V: "Passed for Publication"-- 1941-1945
  • 25. A Wartime Press and the Paradox of Censorship for Freedom
  • 26. AJAs: American Patriots
  • PART VI: The March toward Statehood-- the 1940s and 1950s
  • 27. "Dear Joe": Lorrin Thurston Writes to Joe--Stalin or Farrington?
  • 28. The Honolulu Record and the Art of Muckraking
  • 29. The Hawaii Seven: Journalists in Jeopardy
  • 30. Ka Leo Reports on the Golden Rule
  • 31. Watch Them Grow: Tourism and Suburban O'ahu
  • 32. Statehood and the Star-Bulletin
  • PART VII :The Turbulent 1960s
  • 33. The Business of Newspapers
  • 34. The Popular Columnist
  • 35. Sports and Journalism: "The Social Fabric"
  • 36. Above Ground: The Battle for Diamond Head
  • 37. Underground: The Battle for Hawai'i's Soul
  • 38. Women in the News: From Society to Social Causes
  • PART VIII:From Satellite City Halls to a Satellite Universe-- 1970-1976
  • 39. Memories of Maui
  • 40. Corporate Economics and Chain Papers
  • 41. Fighting the Newspapers to a Draw: Frank Fasi and the Dailies
  • 42. The Public Opinion Poll
  • 43. Anger and Wit: The Political Cartoon
  • 44. Hawaiian Sovereignty and a Satellite Universe, 1976
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author.