The Island Edge of America : : A Political History of Hawaii / / Tom Coffman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Coffman, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place.With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Chapter 1. The Edge -- Chapter 2. The Tensions of Annexation -- Chapter 3. The Japanese Migration -- Chapter 4. Prewar Change -- Chapter 5. When Time Began -- Chapter 6. The ESC and the Modern Democratic Party -- Chapter 7. The Island Democratic Party -- Chapter 7. The Island Democratic Party -- Chapter 9. In the Middle -- Chapter 10. The First Japanese American Governor -- Chapter 11. Special Place -- Chapter 12. The Pacific and Asia -- Chapter 13. Native Hawaiians in the New Hawai'i -- Chapter 14. Democratic Reinventions: Status Quo and Change -- Chapter 15. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author