Connecting the Kingdom: Sailing Vessels in the Early Hawaiian Monarchy, 1790-1840In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation state from sources mostly ignored by colonial and post colonial historians alike. By examining how early Hawaiian chiefs appropriated Western sailing technology to help build their island nation, Mills presents the fascinating history of sixty Hawaiian owned schooners, brigs, barks, and peleleu canoes. While these vessels have often been

and the interpretation of historic sites across the United States

who contributed to the mission by lending their authority to the cause and by contributing land end labor for the construction of churches

as Ida Pope sheltered Hawai‘i’s daughters through the frightening and turbulent end of their sovereign nation

the struggle for self-support and self-governance

In this volume

many of Pope’s teaching contemporaries’ unpublished diaries

In doing so

Voices of Hawai‘i began as a labor of love

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Surveying the Mahele presents the stories of notable  Hawaiians

the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread

was not without challenges