Beyond Hawai'i
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1700s
1800s
18th century
19th century
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arctic ocean
Author_Gregory Rosenthal
california
capitalism
captain james cook
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environment
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equatorial islands
exploration
explorers
global ecological change
global ecology
global economy
hunting
indigenous labor
indigenous people
kanaka maoli
life and death
life story
migrant workers
mining
native hawaiian
pacific ocean
pacific world
sugar plantations
transnational
travel
true story
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- ISBN 9780520295070
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in na ‘aina ‘e (foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawai‘i tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawai‘i is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World.
Gregory Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of History at Roanoke College.
