Product Description: In May 1990, lava from the Kilauea Volcano engulfed the towns of Kalapana, Kapa'ahu, and Kaimu. This book shares the history and resilience of the people and places of Kalapana, and features the photography of Dorian Weisel.

Product Description: From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V...read more

Product Description: From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V...read more

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An account of King Kalakaua's famous world tour, which made him the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe. Kalakaua's quest in circling the globe was to reach out to the rest of the world to bring his island nation immigrants from other countries to repopulate his land and revigorate the lives of his declining people. Kalakaua embraced a culturally pluralistic world where races, cultures and various religions could live together in harmony but with independence. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Autobiography explores Hawaii's social and economic fabric through the comments of 35 progressive activists. The activists range in age from the mid 30s to the late 70s and comment on their involvement on issues such as housing, labor, land use, poverty, environment, sexual harassment, seniors, and sovereignty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

[Read by Joe Barrett] In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough comes the first full-scale narrative history of Hawaii, an epic tale of empire, industry, war, and culture. The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its discovery by Captain Cook in the late eighteenth century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism, and rites of human sacrifice and the rigid values of the Calvinists. While Hawaii's royal rulers adopted Christianity, they also fought to preserve their ancient ways. But the success of the ruthless American sugar barons sealed their fate, and in 1893 the American Marines overthrew Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii. Captive Paradise is the story of King Kamehameha I, the Conqueror, who unified the islands through terror and bloodshed but whose dynasty succumbed to inbreeding; of Gilded Age tycoons like Claus Spreckels, who brilliantly outmaneuvered his competitors; of firebrand Lorrin Thurston, who was determined that Hawaii be ruled by whites; of President McKinley, who presided over the eventual annexation of the islands. Not since James Michener's classic novel Hawaii has there been such a vibrant and compelling portrait of an extraordinary place and its people.  

A history of America's leper colony shares the story of how its residents endeavored to create a community under horrific circumstances, describing how more than eight thousand resource-limited victims were subjected to cruel medical experiments and the criminal activities of fellow exiles. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Product Description: Discover the 50 most delightful excursions on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kauai. This marvelous guide includes walking tours of Honolulu and other towns, visits to historic sites and preserved villages, jaunts to the top of volcanoes and to remote, hidden beaches, as well as many encounters with the Hawaii that tourists usually miss...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Take a journey through old Hilo town. Revisit the golden era when cane was king, and Hilo was a bustling center of activity for the surrounding plantation villages. Rich anecdotes and rare photographs are included this handy, site-by-site guide, the second Big Island volume in Watermark's Small Town Series...read more

Covering all of the major Hawaiian Islands, this book takes readers on routes not found in traditional guidebooks, on journeys to the Hawai'i of old-places of powerful ali'i, wise kahuna, sacred heiau, and mysterious menehune. Sites of historical and cultural significance are described in detail and directions are given to each place.

Product Description: Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of O‘ahu, it has produced some of the most intriguing Hawaiians of the twentieth century: world-class surfers Buffalo Keaulana and his sons Rusty and Brian; beautiful skin diver and surfing pro Rell Sunn; and larger-than-life singer and songwriter Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole...read more

Product Description: Nearly one in four persons in Hawai‘i is of Filipino heritage. Representing one-fifth of the state’s workforce, Filipinos have been in Hawai‘i for more than a century, turning the rough and raw materials of sugar and pineapple into billion-dollar commodities...read more