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1 online resource |
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Passage to Hawaiʻi: the development of a fishing culture in Japan since ancient times -- Japanese fisherman enter Hawaiian waters: the formative years of commercial fishing in Hawaiʻi and the rise of the Japanese, from 1899 to the early 1920s -- The heyday of the Japanese fishing industry in Hawaiʻi -- Surviving the dark days -- The reconstruction and revitalization of fisheries after World War II -- Okinawa and Hawaiʻi |
| Summary |
This text presents a part historical and a part ethnographic study of Japanese fisheries in Hawaii from the late nineteenth century to contemporary times. Unlike most of the previous works on Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, which focus on sugarcane plantations, this breakthrough work is the first comprehensive history of Japanese as fishermen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fisheries -- Hawaii -- History
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Fishing -- Hawaii -- History
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Fishers -- Hawaii -- History
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Japanese -- Employment -- Hawaii -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Fisheries
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Fishers
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Fishing
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Japanese -- Employment
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Hawaii
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Hawaii.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824854850 |
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0824854853 |
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9780824869595 |
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0824869591 |
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