How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup
Beginning from a perspective that sees Hawai'i as a subjugated colony of the United States and aims for Native Hawai'ian control of sovereignty, the 15 essays presented here by Fujikane (English, U. o
Capt. James Cook stood on his ship gazing at the coastline of Kauai and the Hawaiian village of Waimea in 1778. Kauai was its own kingdom then, and King Kaumualii--the king of Kauai who challenged Kam
From the Publisher: Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Gary Y. Okihiro overturns the customary narrative in which the United States acts upon and dominates
Academic writing about Rapa Nui (called Easter Island in Euro-American parlance) remains dominated by the European imperial narrative, argues this work, and this confirms a continuing imperial pedagog
The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. Finney describes
Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations between the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders and the intrusive values and opportunities of the market economy. Some important lessons are to be learnt from the gap between what might be predicted from abstract theories of development and what is actually happening in the real world of politicians, planners
Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering presents a cultural and environmental history of the area, exploring its place not only in the popular imagination, but also through the experiences of
Readers can learn historical, natural science, and cultural information about the Aloha State by following Patrick and his father as they kayak around the Big Island, drive to Haleakala Crater, visit
Discovered on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in 1868, the massive basalt statue known as Hoa Hakananai'a was transported to England on the HMS Topaze and given to the British Museum. In this report, Van Til
This reader-friendly Hawaiian history tells the islands' story from the arrival of the very first Polynesian settlers in the 300s to the most recent strivings for native Hawaiian sovereignty. Learn a
Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and conso
Discovering Hawaii is likely to be a lifetime labor of love, not easily accomplished during a two-week vacation. Yet insights do reward those travelers who approach the Islands and their people with o
From the meaning of the word "aloha" to the plight of the state bird, the final installment of the Discover America State by State series introduces readers to one of the most-visited places on Earth.
Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history--including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Mar
