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The Island Edge of America

Paperback • 2003 • English

The Island Edge of America

By Tom Coffman

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About the book

In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His...Show more

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9780824826628

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Island Edge of America

Format

Paperback

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