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Harcourt, Brace & World, Published 1961. Hardcover, vii, 501 pp; 23 cm; later printing (copyright page coded D.1.65, a 1965 printing); illustrated with a map of Hawaii.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Cream cloth boards with teal-green lettering down the spine and a blind-stamped publisher's device at foot. Light fading to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine ends, some toning to cloth. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Light toning and offsetting to endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket shows a photographic palm tree against graduated blue and green bands, bright and fresh; a few nicks and short edge tears (all under 1/4 inch), light edge creasing, and some color loss along edges. Not price clipped ($6.95 on front flap). Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Hawaii Pono (Hawaiian for "Hawaii the excellent") is Lawrence H. Fuchs's social and political history of Hawaii from the late nineteenth century through statehood in 1959. Fuchs traces the islands' principal peoples (the Native Hawaiians, the haole missionary and business elite, and the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrant communities) and the rise of the plantation oligarchy, the labor movement, and the democratic politics that carried Hawaii to statehood. A standard work on the subject, praised on publication by James Michener and Daniel Inouye. Includes a glossary of Hawaiian and immigrant-language terms.Contents: Prologue, A Kingdom Passes; Part One, Ways of Life 1900-1941 (Born to Rule; Pilikia and Aloha; Success, Pake Style; Pride and Place; Strangers and Afraid); Part Two, The Web of Oligarchy 1900-1941 (Strategy for Control; No New Deal for Hawaii; No Concessions Whatsoever; Merchant Street Versus the Voice of Labor; Co-operation, Not Competition); Part Three, The Dynamics of Democracy 1900-1960 (Seeds of Democracy; Hawaii's Ordeal; Revolution at the Polls; Politics of Democracy; Labor Militant; Tourists, Warriors, and Entrepreneurs; The Promise of Hawaii); Sources and Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.