Knight, Henry, 1982-

California and Hawai'i bound : U.S. settler colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959 / U.S. settler colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959 Henry Knight Lozano. - 1 online resource. - Studies in Pacific worlds .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9781496227454 9781496227430


National characteristics, Hawaiian.
Settler colonialism--Hawaii.


Electronic Books.

DU627 / .C355 2021