Jennifer Thigpen: 1 book

Book cover of Island Queens and Mission Wives

Island Queens and Mission Wives

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:...
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