Noelani Arista

The Kingdom and the Republic (eBook, ePUB)

Sovereign Hawai¿i and the Early United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in pursuit of the lucrative sandalwood trade obliged the ali'i (chiefs) of the islands to pronounce legal restrictions on foreigners' access to Hawaiian women. Assuming the new missionaries were the source of these rules, sailors attacked two mission stations, fracturing relations between merchants, missionaries, and sailors, while native rulers remained firmly in charge. In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle the story of Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century. Through this research, she explores the political deliberations between ali'i over the sale of a Hawaiian woman to a British ship captain in 1825 and the consequences of the attacks on the mission stations. The result is a heretofore untold story of native political formation, the creation of indigenous law, and the extension of chiefly rule over natives and foreigners alike. Relying on what is perhaps the largest archive of written indigenous language materials in North America, Arista argues that Hawaiian deliberations and actions in this period cannot be understood unless one takes into account Hawaiian understandings of the past-and the ways this knowledge of history was mobilized as a means to influence the present and secure a better future. In pursuing this history, The Kingdom and the Republic reconfigures familiar colonial histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawai'i.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812295597
• Artikelnr.: 56843275

Autorenporträt

Noelani Arista is Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. He Ao
lelo: A World of Words Chapter 1. The Political Economy of Mana: Obligation, Debt, and Trade Chapter 2. Creating an Island Imaginary: Hawai
i's American Origins Chapter 3. The Isles Shall Wait for His Law: Planting the American Congregational Mission Chapter 4. Hawaiian Women, Kapu, and the Emergence of K
n
wai Chapter 5. Libel, Law, and Justice Before the
Aha
lelo Afterword Appendix. Textual Sources and Research Methods Glossary Notes Index Acknowledgments