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Beyond Hawai'i : native labor in the Pacific world /

"In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai'i to work on ships at sea and in na 'aina 'e (foreign lands)--in California, the Arctic Ocean, the equatorial...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosenthal, Gregory Samantha, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Boki's predicament : Sandalwood and the China trade
  • Make's dance : Migrant workers and migratory animals
  • Kealoha in the Arctic : Whale blubber and human bodies
  • Kailiopio and the tropicbird : Life and labor on a Guano Island
  • Nahoa's tears : Gold, dreams, and diaspora in California
  • Beckwith's Pilikia : "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku plantation
  • Epilogue : Legacies of capitalism and colonialism.