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  • - America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945-1965
    af Meghan Warner Mettler
    519,95 kr.

    Examines the shibui phenomenon, in which American consumers embraced Japanese culture while still exoticizing this new aesthetic. By examining shibui through the popularity of samurai movies, ikebana flower arrangement, bonsai cultivation, home and garden design, and Zen Buddhism, Mettler provides a new context for understanding how Americans encountered a foreign nation in their everyday lives.

  • - U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959
    af Henry Knight Lozano
    813,95 kr.

    Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.

  • - A History
    af Richard Ravalli
    269,95 - 465,95 kr.

    Synthesizes anew the sea otter's complex history of interaction with humans by drawing on new histories of the species that consider international and global factors beyond the fur trade, including sea mammal conservation, Cold War nuclear testing, and environmental tourism. Ravalli weaves together the story of imperial ambition, greed, and an iconic sea mammal.

  • - Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
    af Joy Schulz
    378,95 - 608,95 kr.

    An exploration of competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting the hundreds of white missionary children born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nineteenth century, and the impact these children had on U.S. foreign policy of the era.

  • af Joy Schulz
    505,95 kr.

    Joy Schulz explores Polynesia’s nineteenth-century women rulers, who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.

  • af Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
    321,95 - 1.077,95 kr.

  • af Angela Wanhalla
    562,95 kr.

    Of Love and War details the intimate relationships forged during wartime between women and U.S. servicemen stationed in the South Pacific, traces the fate of wartime marriages, and addresses consequences for the women and children left behind.

  • af Derek Taira
    788,95 kr.

    Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public schools’ aggressive efforts to assimilate and Americanize but instead engaged with American education to envision and support an alternate future.