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UNINA9910279590703321 |
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Autore |
D'Arcy Paul |
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Titolo |
Transforming Hawai'i : balancing coercion and consent in eighteenth-century Kānaka Maoli statecraft / / Paul D'Arcy |
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ANU Press, 2018 |
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Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University Press, , 2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxix, 310 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social & cultural history |
Politics & government |
Warfare & defence |
Medicine |
History |
Hawaii History To 1893 |
Hawaii Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Three Key Debates: Positioning Hawai'i in World History -- Gathering Momentum: Power in Hawai'i to 1770 -- The Hawaiian Political Transformation from 1770 to 1796 -- The Hawaiian Military Transformation from 1770 to 1796 -- The Pursuit of Power in Hawai'i from 1780 to 1796 -- Creating a Kingdom: Hawai'i from 1796 to 1819 -- The Hawaiian Achievement in Comparative Perspective. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. Three interrelated themes in Hawaiian political evolution are examined: the balance between coercion and consent; the balance between general structural trends and specific individual styles of leadership and historical events; and the balance between indigenous and European factors. The resulting synthesis is a radical reinterpretation of Hawaiian warfare that treats it as an evolving process heavily imbued with cultural meaning. Hawaiian |
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