Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.
Henry Knight Lozano is a senior lecturer in American history at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 and the coeditor of The Shadow of Selma.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Destiny and Devastation, 1840s–1850s 2. Cane and Coolie Labor, 1850s–1880s 3. Emulation and Empire, 1880s–1890s 4. Pineapples and Perils, 1890s–1920s 5. Fantasylands and Frontiers of Leisure, 1900s–1930s 6. Soldiery and Statehood, 1900s–1950s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Destiny and Devastation, 1840s–1850s 2. Cane and Coolie Labor, 1850s–1880s 3. Emulation and Empire, 1880s–1890s 4. Pineapples and Perils, 1890s–1920s 5. Fantasylands and Frontiers of Leisure, 1900s–1930s 6. Soldiery and Statehood, 1900s–1950s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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