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Author Osorio, Jonathan K. K., author

Title Dismembering Lahui : a History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 / Jonathan K.K. Osorio
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002]
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Aupuni -- 2. Law and Lâhui -- 3. 'Āina and Lāhui -- 4. A House Divided -- 5. Conventional Beliefs -- 6. Hawai'i for Hawaiians -- 7. Bayonet -- 8. Ho'oulu Lâhui -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawaii from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887, which effectively placed political power in the kingdom in the hands of white businessmen. Making extensive use of legislative texts, contemporary newspapers, and important works by Hawaiian historians and others, Osorio plots the course of events that transformed Hawaii from a traditional subsistence economy to a modern nation, taking into account the many individuals nearly forgotten by history who wrestled with each new political and social change. A final poignant chapter links past events with the struggle for Hawaiian sovereignty today
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Nov 2017)
Subject Racism -- Hawaii -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Ethnic relations
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT Hawaii -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Hawaii -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Hawaii
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780824845407
0824845404