Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i, 1st Edition eBook

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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.

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Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i 1st Edition is written by Christen T. Sasaki and published by University of California Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Pacific Confluence are 9780520382770, 0520382773 and the print ISBNs are 9780520382756, 0520382757. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780520382763.