From First Canoe to Statehood: Eight Hundred Years of Economic and Political Change in Hawaii

The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Building on new archaeological and historical research, the lecture provides an overview of the economic and political history of Hawai‘i from the f...

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Published in:Australian economic history review 2019-03, Vol.59 (1), p.2-23
Main Author: La Croix, Sumner
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
annexation
Colonization
Hawaii
Historical analysis
Kamehameha
Land Reform Act
Markets
overthrow
Political change
Political history
Politics
property rights
Statehood
sugar
taro
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Summary:The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Building on new archaeological and historical research, the lecture provides an overview of the economic and political history of Hawai‘i from the first Polynesian settlements in the thirteen century through U.S. colonisation and statehood. The analysis considers how the political and economic institutions that emerged and evolved in Hawai‘i during its centuries of global isolation changed in response to Hawai‘i's post‐1778 integration into a new world of global markets and colonial politics.
ISSN:0004-8992
1467-8446
2832-157X
DOI:10.1111/aehr.12171