Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific Contributor(s): Schulz, Joy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803285892 ISBN-13: 9780803285897 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Indigenous Studies |
Dewey: 996.902 |
LCCN: 2017944083 |
Series: Studies in Pacific Worlds |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.11 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. |