Pacific Confluence: Fighting Over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i Volume 69

The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion--but it was never a foregone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T. Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state but of the US empire itself. The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state in Hawaiʻi sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was contested on the global stage. Centered around a series of flash points that exposed the fragility of the imperial project, Pacific Confluence examines how the meeting and mixing of ideas that occurred between Hawaiians and Japanese, white American, and Portuguese transients and settlers led to the dynamic rethinking of the modern nation-state.

Author: Christen T. Sasaki
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/29/2022
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520382763
ISBN10: 0520382765
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Oceania
- History | North American

About the Author
Christen T. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.