Modern Hawaiian history has an antecedent in a single historic episode, the mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III) abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure and adopted the Western concept of private ownership of property. Surveying the Mahele reveals how the complex disciplines of mapping and surveying, which reflect values of feudal European society that underlie modern concepts of land ownership, changed the destiny of Hawai'i. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of mahele land surveys that ...
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Modern Hawaiian history has an antecedent in a single historic episode, the mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III) abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure and adopted the Western concept of private ownership of property. Surveying the Mahele reveals how the complex disciplines of mapping and surveying, which reflect values of feudal European society that underlie modern concepts of land ownership, changed the destiny of Hawai'i. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of mahele land surveys that range in scope from single home sites to a plat of one hundred thousand acres. In the matter of a few years, Hawai'i changed from a society in which the ali'i ai'moku, or king, served as stew ard of the land that belonged to the gods, to one in which he, the ali'i, or nobility, and the maka'ainana, or com moners, acquired outright ownership of land
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Folio. 119pp, index, bibliography, notes, num maps, endpaper maps. Or browncloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, jacket lightly foxed on reverse, faded at spine.
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