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Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with little contact from the western world. In 1778, their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook. Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Hawaii brings to life the ensuing clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues,...
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The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted: his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President...
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Biography including the reminiscences of Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo (February 6, 1878 - July 7, 1979) hānai daughter of Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawai'i on the true story about the betrayal of the Queen. This book reveals the usurpation of Hawaii from the native Hawaiians and is tremendously informative concerning the entire period of missionary and foreign encroachment in the islands. Talks about the secrets and tragedies, joys and accomplishments...
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The author interweaves her own memories of growing up in Honolulu in the 1950s and 6̕0s with a chronicle of Hawaiis̕ two-hundred-year encounter with the West, offering a celebration of the myth, culture, landscape, and music of Kauai, and revealing the rich Polynesians traditions that have shaped the modern island state.
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Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States. In it the author reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland in Africa and a white woman born in Texas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every...
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