The Island Edge Of America

Download or read book The Island Edge of America written by Tom Coffman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Islands at the Edge of Time written by Gunnar Hansen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.

Download or read book The Burton Holmes Lectures: Hawaiian Islands. Edge of China. Manila written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hawaiian Islands. Edge of China. Manila written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Geological Society of America written by Geological Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-44 include Proceedings of the annual meeting, 1889-1933, later published separately.

Download or read book Living on the Edge of America written by Robert Lee Maril and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And affecting, filled with palm fronds groaning in a burning wind, bulging pink gecko eyes under the porch light, Mando's karate academy, professors who study rocks and flies, and the small but important victories of junior high students whose families do not speak English. They are stories that recognize the forces at work in people's lives which are beyond their control, but also the qualities of courage, humor, resignation, and sometimes despair that translate those.

Download or read book State v. Venice of America Land Co., 160 MICH 680 (1910) written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 117