California and Hawai'i Bound : U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959 /

"Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an "Americanized" Pacific from the 1840s to the 1940s"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Henry, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Territorial expansion.
National characteristics, Hawaiian.
International relations.
Civilization.
Settler colonialism > Hawaii.
United States.
Hawaii.
California.
United States > Territorial expansion.
California > Civilization.
Hawaii > Civilization.
California > Relations > Hawaii.
Hawaii > Relations > California.
Hawaii > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Destiny and devastation, 1840s-1850s
  • Cane and coolie labor, 1850s-1880s
  • Emulation and empire, 1880s-1890s
  • Pineapples and perils, 1890s-1920s
  • Fantasylands and frontiers of leisure, 1900s-1930s
  • Soldiery and statehood, 1900s-1950s.

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