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Shore Fishes of Hawai’i

Author: John E. Randall
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: hawai, fishes, shore
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-05
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0824821823
ISBN-13: 9780824821821

First published in 1996, this new edition of "Shore Fishes of Hawai’i" updates our knowledge of Hawaiian fishes and has been expanded to include 372 species. All are illustrated by the author’s 475 superb color photographs. The most important characteristics to identify a fish are given as well as the size attained and its distribution. Each species account begins with the American common name, followed by the Hawaiian name (when known), and the scientific name. Because it is necessary to use some scientific terminology when giving the principal diagnostic characteristics of famili

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Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai’i?

Author: Jon M. Van Dyke
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: hawai, lands, crown, owns
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 2007-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0824832116
ISBN-13: 9780824832117

The 1846 Mahele (division) transformed the lands of Hawai`i from a shared value into private property, but left many issues unresolved. Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III) agreed to the Mahele, which divided all land among the mö`ï (king), the ali`i (chiefs), and the maka`äïnana (commoners), in the hopes of keeping the lands in Hawaiian hands even if a foreign power claimed sovereignty over the islands. The king’s share was further divided into Government and Crown Lands, the latter managed personally by the ruler until a court decision in 1864 and a statute passed in 1865 declared that t

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Colonizing Hawai’i

Author: Sally Engle Merry
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: hawai, colonizing
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1999-12-21
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691009325
ISBN-13: 9780691009322

How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai’i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and co

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Na Mele O Hawai’i Nei: 101 Hawaiian Songs

Author: Samuel H. Elbert
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: songs, hawaiian, nei, hawai, mele
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1970-05-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0870222198
ISBN-13: 9780870222191

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The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawai’i

Author: Tom Coffman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: history, hawai, political, america, edge, island
Number of Pages: 419
Published: 2003-03
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0824826256
ISBN-13: 9780824826253

In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawai’i. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, post-war labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawai’i’s legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational