LEADER 03788 am 22006373u 450 001 9910279590703321 005 20200714210431.0 010 $a1-76046-174-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000004910877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5441162 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00125644 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38371 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004910877 100 $a20200714d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTransforming Hawai'i $ebalancing coercion and consent in eighteenth-century Ka?naka Maoli statecraft /$fPaul D'Arcy 210 $cANU Press$d2018 210 1$aActon, Australian Capital Territory :$cAustralian National University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xxix, 310 pages) 311 $a1-76046-173-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThree 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. 330 $aThis 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 history is also shown to be characterised by fluid changing circumstances, including crucial turning points when options were adopted that took elements of Hawaiian society on paths of development that proved decisive for political unification. These watershed moments were neither inevitable nor predictable. Perhaps the greatest omission in the standard discourse on the political evolution of Hawaiian society is the almost total exclusion of modern indigenous Hawaiian scholarship on this topic. Modern historians from the Hawai?inui?kea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaii at M?noa argue that political leadership and socioeconomic organisation were much more concensus-based than is usually allowed for. Above all, this study finds modern indigenous Hawaiian studies a much better fit with the historical evidence than more conventional scholarship. 606 $aSocial & cultural history$2bicssc 606 $aPolitics & government$2bicssc 606 $aWarfare & defence$2bicssc 606 $aMedicine$2bicssc 607 $aHawaii$xHistory$yTo 1893 607 $aHawaii$xPolitics and government 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $aHawaii 610 $amilitary history 610 $apolitics 610 $aindigenous studies 610 $aAli?i 610 $aKahekili II 610 $aKamehameha I 610 $aMaui 610 $aNative Hawaiians 610 $aOahu 615 7$aSocial & cultural history 615 7$aPolitics & government 615 7$aWarfare & defence 615 7$aMedicine 676 $a996.902 700 $aD'Arcy$b Paul$0944905 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910279590703321 996 $aTransforming Hawai'i$92133252 997 $aUNINA