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Book Hawai i Homefront

    Book Details:
  • Author : MacKinnon Simpson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781573062817
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hawai i Homefront written by MacKinnon Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From conversations with those who experienced the era first hand"--Back cover

Book A is for Alpha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Aster
  • Publisher : Kate Aster
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book A is for Alpha written by Kate Aster and published by Kate Aster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who put the “O” in Aloha? Yeah, that’s me. Camden Sheridan. A guy who will bring you to “O” faster than you can text it. Former Army Ranger with the standard issue 8-pack. And now, a bartender who’ll get you safely back to your hotel after too many margaritas… and you won’t want me to leave. Believe me, you won’t. I live life by my rules in my bachelor pad paradise here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Until a Ranger brother needs me to take care of his little girl while he deploys. A four-year-old cockblock in pigtails. My sex life comes to a screeching halt. Then the babysitter shows up. Annie. Smart, principled, good with kids. All the things I don’t look for in a woman. I want her anyway. Annie’s got a fortress of secrets surrounding her. But I’ll break it down and claim her as mine. If this kid will just take a nap.

Book Hula for the Home Front

Download or read book Hula for the Home Front written by Kirby Larson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nanea Mitchell had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But everything has changed since the war started, including Miss Smith's wonderful classroom. Nanea' dear friend Donna is gone, and now there's a new girl who seems to be getting all of Miss Smith's attention. There are also worries at home as Nanea' big brother talks about joining the Army. Nanea can't bear the thought of him leaving. In the swirl of changes, Nanea turns to hula. Dancing always makes her feel better. Then, Nanea gets a big idea-- could hula help lift the spirits of the soldiers, too?"--Page [4] of cover.

Book In Love and War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melody M. Miyamoto Walters
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-09-09
  • ISBN : 0806152966
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book In Love and War written by Melody M. Miyamoto Walters and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of December 7, 1941, rocked the lives of people around the world. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had intimate repercussions, too, especially in the territory of Hawaii. In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during World War II. Drawing on her grandparents’ letters, Miyamoto Walters fleshes out what it meant to live and work on the islands of Kauai, Oahu, and Hawaii during the war years. Although to outsiders, twenty-somethings Yoshiharu Ogata and Naoko Tsukiyama were both “Japs,” the couple came from different socioeconomic classes and cultures. Naoko, the author’s grandmother, hailed from a prosperous Honolulu merchant family, whereas Yoshiharu grew up poor, part of the laboring class on a sugar plantation on Kauai. Their courtship was riddled with challenges. He stayed on Oahu, then moved to Kauai; she moved to the Big Island. Yoshiharu faced the possibility of being drafted into the military. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they both lived under martial law. Some Americans, operating under nativist and xenophobic beliefs, questioned Japanese Americans’ loyalty to the United States. But, as the letters collected here show, the Nisei were patriots. Naoko and Yoshiharu spoke English, participated in the YMCA and the USO, and taught in public schools. They embraced American popular culture—quoting lines of pop songs in their correspondence—and celebrated both Japanese and American traditions. Through their experiences, Miyamoto Walters shows how Japanese Americans’ negotiation of race, ethnicity, and cultural space in wartime indelibly shaped Hawaii’s postwar economic, political, and social landscape.

Book Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands

Download or read book Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands  August 10 1989  Wailuku  Maui

Download or read book Administration of Native Hawaiian Home Lands August 10 1989 Wailuku Maui written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Island Of Sweet Pies And Soldiers

Download or read book Island Of Sweet Pies And Soldiers written by Sara Ackerman and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumours swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something. But Ella is stubbornly silent. Something – or someone – has scared her. And with the island overrun by troops training for a secret mission, tension and suspicion between neighbors is rising. Violet bands together with her close friends to get through the difficult days. To support themselves, they open a pie stand near the military base, offering the soldiers a little homemade comfort. Try as she might, Violet can't ignore her attraction to the brash marine who comes to her aid when the women are accused of spying. Desperate to discover the truth behind what happened to her husband, while keeping her friends and daughter safe, Violet is torn by guilt, fear and longing as she faces losing everything. Again.

Book A History of Hawaii  Student Book

Download or read book A History of Hawaii Student Book written by Linda K. Menton and published by CRDG. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and readable account of the history of Hawai'i presented in three chronological units: Unit 1, Pre-contact to 1900; Unit 2, 1900¿1945; Unit 3, 1945 to the present. Each unit contains chapters treating political, economic, social, and land history in the context of events in the United States and the Pacific Region. The student book features primary documents, political cartoons, stories and poems, graphs, a glossary, maps, and timelines. The activities, writing assignments, oral presentations, and simulations foster critical thinking.

Book Palisades Park

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Brennert
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0312643721
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Palisades Park written by Alan Brennert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.

Book Japanese American Incarceration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 0812299957
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Japanese American Incarceration written by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.

Book American Sutra

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  • Author : Duncan Ryuken Williams
  • Publisher : Belknap Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0674986539
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book American Sutra written by Duncan Ryuken Williams and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.--

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide  Hawaii

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hawaii written by Bonnie Birmingham and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated guide to Hawaii in the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel series

Book Hawaii Goes to War

Download or read book Hawaii Goes to War written by DeSoto Brown and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the enthralling story of Hawaii during World War II as shown through a fascinating text and hundreds of rare and historic photographs. World War II s disruptions were felt throughout the United States, but nowhere more strongly than in Hawaii. Beginning with the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the years of change and the restrictions that in 1945 caused the islands to undergo an experience unlike anywhere else in the country." From Amazon.

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide  Hawaii

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hawaii written by Bonnie Friedman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With beautifully commissioned photographs, and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have been updated to include: expanded hotel& restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and easier-to-read print! Fully Revised and Updated!

Book Japanese Eyes American Hearts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824821449
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Japanese Eyes American Hearts written by Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Eyes... American Heart is a rare and powerful collection of personal thoughts written by the soldiers themselves, reflections of the men's thoughts as recorded in diaries and letters sent home to family members and friends, and other expressions about an episode that marked a turning point in the lives of many.

Book Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

Download or read book Pioneer Photographers of the Far West written by Peter E. Palmquist and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.

Book Soldiers on the Home Front

    Book Details:
  • Author : William C. Banks
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-04
  • ISBN : 0674495411
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Soldiers on the Home Front written by William C. Banks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When crisis requires U.S troops to deploy on American soil, the nation depends on a rich body of law to establish lines of authority, guard civil liberties, and protect democratic institutions. William Banks and Stephen Dycus analyze the military’s domestic role as it is shaped by law, and ask what we must learn and do before the next crisis.