Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by Susanna Moore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Paradise written by Ian Cameron and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting for Paradise written by Kurt R. Nelson and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the earliest recorded accounts of wars among the American Indians, Nelson describes early European contact, including British trappers of the Hudson Bay Company, whose fur trading led to the Pig War, and the long bitter battles between whites and American Indians.
Download or read book Report of the Department of the Interior with Accompanying Documents written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise in Ruins written by Antwyn Price and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, Japan devastated the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. While war had been raging in Europe and in Asia for years, this unprovoked attack drew the United States into the most disruptive and wasteful cataclysm in human historythe Second World War. While history books speak to the battles and historical figures pivotal to the outcome of the war, there were also ordinary peopleboth civilian and uniformedwho were propelled out of their comfort zones by unforeseen events and adventures. Paradise in Ruins is a historical novel that unleashes an eclectic cast of characters who, tired of being constantly overlooked in World War II histories, finally have a chance to speak. Combining together a cast of civilian men and women, naval and military officers, and Pacific Islanders with the stories of real historical figures, author Antwyn Prices extensive research provides a compelling, personal view into the struggles and irrevocably changed lives of the men and women in the Asia-Pacific region before, during, and after the war. Covering both the Nimitz and MacArthur campaigns from 1941 to 1946, stories about these lives will unfold from Canton Island to Sydney; from Pearl Harbor to Guam; from Espiritu Santo and Nouma to Guadalcanal and Bougainville; from New Guinea to the Philippines; and from Iwo Jima and Peleliu to Okinawa and Tokyo. Anyone curious about the Pacific War will be able to stitch the events together so that the geography, peoples, logistics, and strategies can be more easily understood.
Download or read book Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawai i Is My Haven written by Nitasha Tamar Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged antiBlack racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, nonWhite multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider Hawaiʻi their haven, describing it as a place to “breathe” that offers the possibility of becoming local. Sharma's analysis of race, indigeneity, and Asian settler colonialism shifts North American debates in Black and Native studies to the Black Pacific. Hawaiʻi Is My Haven illustrates what the Pacific offers members of the African diaspora and how they in turn illuminate race and racism in “paradise.”
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the National Park Service to the Secreatry of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
