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  • af Tom Coffman
    228,95 kr.

    CATCH A WAVE is a study of the early statehood politics of Hawaii. The legendary Governor John A. Burns is challenged by the brilliant upstart Thomas P. Gill in the Democratic primary. The influences of labor, business, war veterans, insiders and outsiders are revealed in the process. The campaign was an early exercise in fusing money and television. The renowned Democratic consultant Joseph Napolitan called CATCH A WAVE "required reading for anyone interested in politics and government in Hawaii." The book has sold 20,000 copies. The current printing is its sixth.

  • af Coffman
    268,95 kr.

  • - A Transnational Family History
    af Tom Coffman
    193,95 kr.

    Unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting ""tadaima!"" takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place or return to their place of origin, the Miwa family became transnational.

  • - The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
    af Tom Coffman
    313,95 kr.

    Nation Within is the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. Highlighting the native Hawaiians' resistance during that five year span, Tom Coffman shows why occupying Hawai'i was crucial to American imperial ambitions.