19th century global missions
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Christianization of Hawaii
colonial and postcolonial Hawaii
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cross-cultural exchange in the Pacific
cross-cultural religious encounters
cultural transformation in Hawaii
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democratization of Hawaiian government
early 19th century Hawaii
early Western technology in Hawaii
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Gulick family history
Hawaii and American political expansion
Hawaii and U.S. imperialism
Hawaii sugar plantation development
Hawaiian cultural preservation
Hawaiian economic history
Hawaiian missionary history
Hawaiian nationalist perspectives on missionaries
Hawaiian social and cultural change
Hawaiian-American historical relations
historical impact of American missionaries
land privatization in the islands
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legacy of missionary descendants
missionary contributions to education
missionary correspondence and journals
missionary education and literacy
missionary ethics and practice
missionary family legacies
missionary impact on gender and race
missionary influence on h
missionary influence on Hawaiian language
missionary interactions with Hawaiian royalty
missionary life on Kaua'i
Moloka'i
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Pacific Islander cultural history
Peter and Fanny Gulick biography
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Protestant missions in the Pacific
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Punahou School history
Second Great Awakening missionaries
smallpox inoculation in Hawaii
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spread of capitalism in Hawaii
survival and adaptation in Hawaii
U.S. religious expansionism
Product details
- ISBN 9781558499911
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2012
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Ever since Protestant missionaries from the United States first reached Hawai'i in 1820, they have inspired conflicting passions. In evangelical circles, the missionaries are praised for christianizing Hawai'i, transforming Hawaiian into a written language, and inoculating the islanders against smallpox. But this celebratory assessment is rejected by modern-day Hawaiian nationalists, who excoriate the missionaries as advance agents of U.S. imperialism.
In this biography of pioneer missionaries Peter and Fanny Gulick, Clifford Putney offers a balanced view of their contributions. He says the nationalists are right to credit the missionaries with drawing Hawai'i into America's political orbit, but argues that the missionary enterprise helped in some ways to preserve key elements of Hawaiian culture.
Based primarily on letters, journals, and other archival materials, Putney's book provides readers with a detailed portrait of the lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick. Inspired by America's Second Great Awakening to spread the Gospel overseas, the Gulicks voyaged to Hawai'i in 1828 and lived there for the next forty-six years, actively proselytizing and working to change the islands. On Kaua'i, they helped to ensure the success of Hawai'i's first sugar plantation and acquainted Hawaiians with inventions such as the wagon. On Moloka'i (later the site of a leper colony) the couple struggled merely to survive. And on O'ahu, they took up ranching and helped to found Punahou School, the alma mater of President Barack Obama.
While laboring in Hawai'i, the Gulicks interacted with kings, queens, and other historically important figures, and Putney chronicles those relationships. He also explores issues of race and gender, and sheds new light on the democratization of government, the spread of capitalism, and the privatization of land. From these last two developments, a number of missionaries grew immensely rich, but the Gulicks did not, and neither did their descendants. A group that includes influential missionaries, educators, and physical fitness experts, the descendants of Peter and Fanny have had numerous books written about them, but Putney is the first to write extensively about the progenitors of the Gulick clan.
In this biography of pioneer missionaries Peter and Fanny Gulick, Clifford Putney offers a balanced view of their contributions. He says the nationalists are right to credit the missionaries with drawing Hawai'i into America's political orbit, but argues that the missionary enterprise helped in some ways to preserve key elements of Hawaiian culture.
Based primarily on letters, journals, and other archival materials, Putney's book provides readers with a detailed portrait of the lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick. Inspired by America's Second Great Awakening to spread the Gospel overseas, the Gulicks voyaged to Hawai'i in 1828 and lived there for the next forty-six years, actively proselytizing and working to change the islands. On Kaua'i, they helped to ensure the success of Hawai'i's first sugar plantation and acquainted Hawaiians with inventions such as the wagon. On Moloka'i (later the site of a leper colony) the couple struggled merely to survive. And on O'ahu, they took up ranching and helped to found Punahou School, the alma mater of President Barack Obama.
While laboring in Hawai'i, the Gulicks interacted with kings, queens, and other historically important figures, and Putney chronicles those relationships. He also explores issues of race and gender, and sheds new light on the democratization of government, the spread of capitalism, and the privatization of land. From these last two developments, a number of missionaries grew immensely rich, but the Gulicks did not, and neither did their descendants. A group that includes influential missionaries, educators, and physical fitness experts, the descendants of Peter and Fanny have had numerous books written about them, but Putney is the first to write extensively about the progenitors of the Gulick clan.
Clifford Putney is assistant professor of history at Bentley University and author of Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880 - 1920.
