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Author: Thomas W. Goodhue Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476645175 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
King Kamehameha the Great had 30 wives. Ka'ahumanu (c.1768-1832) was his favorite. Descended from Oceanian voyagers, she grew up in a society completely isolated from the rest of the world, her life enmeshed in dynastic wars and constrained by an elaborate system of taboos. In 1778, she was shocked by the arrival of alien ships, followed by an influx of foreigners. In their wake came devastating epidemics. Seizing power after the King's death, Ka'ahumanu overturned those taboos and guided her nation through revolutionary change, crucial to the Hawaiian Islands' unification. Through sicknesses, romances, infidelities, murders, rebellions, pardons, travels, missionary work, and more, her story challenges many beliefs about American history, Christianity, and gender. Further, it has implications for current debates about immigration, sexuality, and religious diversity. Drawing on seldom-analyzed French and Russian sources, this biography covers neglected aspects of Ka'ahumanu's life. The many spouses and lovers she and Kamehameha had, the roles played by Central Europeans, African-Americans, Catholics and Unitarians in her realm, and struggles with religious pluralism are all included.
Author: Thomas W. Goodhue Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476645175 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
King Kamehameha the Great had 30 wives. Ka'ahumanu (c.1768-1832) was his favorite. Descended from Oceanian voyagers, she grew up in a society completely isolated from the rest of the world, her life enmeshed in dynastic wars and constrained by an elaborate system of taboos. In 1778, she was shocked by the arrival of alien ships, followed by an influx of foreigners. In their wake came devastating epidemics. Seizing power after the King's death, Ka'ahumanu overturned those taboos and guided her nation through revolutionary change, crucial to the Hawaiian Islands' unification. Through sicknesses, romances, infidelities, murders, rebellions, pardons, travels, missionary work, and more, her story challenges many beliefs about American history, Christianity, and gender. Further, it has implications for current debates about immigration, sexuality, and religious diversity. Drawing on seldom-analyzed French and Russian sources, this biography covers neglected aspects of Ka'ahumanu's life. The many spouses and lovers she and Kamehameha had, the roles played by Central Europeans, African-Americans, Catholics and Unitarians in her realm, and struggles with religious pluralism are all included.
Author: Susanna Moore Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 142994496X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
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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.
Author: Jane L. Silverman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
A biography of Kaʻahumanu (March 17, 1768 – June 5, 1832) of Maui. After King Kamehameha I death in 1819, she was queen consort and acted as regent of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as Kuhina Nui. She was the favorite wife of King Kamehameha I.
Author: Rosemary I. Patterson Publisher: Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D. ISBN: 9781880836217 Category : Hawaii Languages : en Pages : 192
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Hawaiian deities demand that the widow of King Kamehameha explain her overthrow of the kapu system that governed every aspect of the Hawaiian people's lives in 1819. She is also required to view modern day Hawaiʻi and evaluate the effects of her political decisions on Native Hawaiians.
Author: Mary Charlotte Alexander Publisher: ISBN: Category : Hawaii Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
The arrival of Hawaii-Loa -- The tales of Hawaii-Loa -- Later voyages -- The story of Umi -- Early Spanish Arrivals -- The Discovery by Cook -- Kamehameha -- The reign of Kamehameha II -- Kaahumanu -- Hawaii and the outside world -- Progress in Hawaii.
Author: Sarah Vowell Publisher: Riverhead Books ISBN: 159448564X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
Author: Thomas W. Goodhue
Author: Thomas W. Goodhue
Author: Kathleen Dickenson Mellen
Author: Susanna Moore
Author: Jane L. Silverman
Author: Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Author: Rosemary I. Patterson
Author: Mary Charlotte Alexander
Author: Sarah Vowell
Author: Elizabeth Kekaaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Pratt
Author: William De Witt Alexander