Hawai'i eight hundred years of political and economic change
Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understanding of the social, political, and economic...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Markets and governments in economic history.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- The short history of humans in Hawai'i
- Voyaging and settlement
- The rise of competing Hawaiian states
- Guns, germs, and sandalwood
- Globalization and the emergence of a mature natural state
- Treaties, powerful elites, and the overthrow
- Colonial political economy: Hawai'i as a U.S. territory
- Homes for Hawaiians
- Statehood and the transition to an open-access order
- The rise and fall of residential leasehold tenure in Hawai'i
- Land reform and housing prices
- The long reach of history.