Shoal of Time a History of the Hawaiian Islands,9780824803247

Shoal of Time a History of the Hawaiian Islands

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ISBN13: 9780824803247
ISBN10: 0824803248
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1974-07-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary

"Daws tells Hawaii's sparkling story well." --New York Times Book Review "[This] history is singularly satisfying... told with style and a nice wit." --Publishers Weekly Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories.

Table of Contents

Prologue xi
Captain Cook 1778--1779
High Islands at Daybreak
1(7)
Kealakekua Bay
8(3)
Lono
11(5)
A Broken Mast
16(8)
The End of Lono
24(5)
Kamehameha 1779--1819
Enter Kamehameha
29(2)
The Arts of War
31(4)
The Lord of Hawaii
35(2)
The Way to Nuuanu
37(4)
Reach and Grasp
41(3)
The Arts of Peace
44(5)
Schaffer of Schafferthal
49(4)
The King Is Dead
53(8)
Missionaries and Merchants 1820--1839
Go Ye Forth into all the World
61(4)
The Isles Shall Wait for his Law
65(6)
Liholiho in London
71(4)
Foreigners and French Priests
75(7)
The Troubles of Boki
82(5)
The Moral Wars
87(4)
Bird Feathers
91(3)
Once More the Priests
94(3)
The Great Awakening
97(5)
The End of the Holy Community
102(4)
The Nation 1839--1854
Large and Unfamiliar Fishes
106(6)
Their Finest Hour
112(8)
Ladd & Co.
120(4)
The Great Mahele
124(4)
Who Is the Despotic Dr. Judd?
128(4)
Treaties
132(5)
When the Bough Breaks
137(10)
Thirteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest
147(7)
A New Society, A New Economy 1855--1876
The Dance of Life
154(9)
The Dance of Death
163(6)
Whales
169(4)
Sugar
173(10)
A Warning Voice
183(7)
Whisky Bill
190(7)
A Burning Torch
197(10)
Out in the Noonday Sun 1876--1887
The Philosophy of the Planters
207(6)
The Conscience of the King
213(7)
The Shepherd Saint
220(5)
His Royal Saccharinity
225(10)
The Empire of the Calabash
235(5)
A Cloud on the Sun
240(11)
Aloha OE 1887--1900
Bulwarks of Liberty
251(4)
Red Shirts
255(3)
The Torch is Quenched
258(6)
Liliuokalani
264(6)
Royalists and Republicans
270(10)
Farewell to Thee
280(5)
Manifest Destiny
285(8)
The Territory 1900--1941
Chiefs and Retainers
293(9)
The Rising Sun
302(9)
A Quota of Sweetness and Light
311(6)
The Honolulu Martyrdom
317(11)
Ultimate Loyalty
328(11)
Now We Are All Haoles 1941--1959
Tora, Tora, Tora
339(5)
War
344(8)
A Commanding General is Never Wrong
352(5)
Labor Pains
357(11)
Unquiet Peace
368(13)
Fiftieth Star
381(11)
Epilogue 392(5)
Acknowledgments 397(2)
Bibliography 399(18)
Notes 417(58)
Index 475

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