In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawaiâi to work on ships at sea and in na âaina âe (foreign lands)âon the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California. Beyond Hawaiâi tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the global economy, and the environment. Whether harvesting sandalwood or bird guano, hunting whales, or mining gold, these migrant workers were essential to the expansion of transnational capitalism and global ecological change. Bridging American, Chinese, and Pacific historiographies, Beyond Hawaiâi is the first book to argue that indigenous laborâmore than the movement of ships and spread of diseasesâunified the Pacific World.
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Jan 22, 2022
€28.20