How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
by
Jennifer Thigpen
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women:...