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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Moore, Susanna, author.     Subjects     Social change -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.     Culture conflict -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.     Acculturation -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.     Legends -- Hawaii.     Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.     Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.     Hawaii -- Social conditions -- 18th century.     Hawaii -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moore, Susanna, author.       by title:      Paradise of the Paci...         MARC Display

Paradise of the Pacific [electronic resource] : approaching Hawaii / Susanna Moore. by Moore, Susanna, author. [New York, New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2015. Subjects Social change -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.   Culture conflict -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.   Acculturation -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.   Legends -- Hawaii.   Hawaii -- History -- 18th century.   Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.   Hawaii -- Social conditions -- 18th century.   Hawaii -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B307484D-5F6E-4AE6-AE4A-5E64889064CA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{B307484D-5F6E-4AE6-AE4A-5E64889064CA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781429944960 (electronic bk.) 142994496X (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay--all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants--legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii--its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers--a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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