"The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893-98) is often framed as an inevitable step of American expansion--but it was never a foregone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T. Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state, but of the US empire itself. The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state in Hawai'i sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty ...
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"The period between the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and US annexation (1893-98) is often framed as an inevitable step of American expansion--but it was never a foregone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T. Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state, but of the US empire itself. The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state in Hawai'i sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was fought on the global stage. Centered around a series of 'flash points' that exposed the fragility of the imperial project, Pacific Confluence examines how the meeting and mixing of ideas that occurred between Hawaiian and Japanese, white American, and Portuguese transients and settlers led to the dynamic rethinking of the modern nation-state"--
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