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Author

D'Arcy, Paul, author.

Title Transforming Hawai'i : balancing coercion and consent in eighteenth-century Knaka Maoli statecraft / Paul D'Arcy.

Publication Info.

Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2018]

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Description	1 online resource (xxix, 310 pages) : maps
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Series	Pacific series
	Pacific series.
Summary	This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. Three interrelated themes in Hawaiian political evolution are examined: the balance between coercion and consent; the balance between general structural trends and specific individual styles of leadership and historical events; and the balance between Indigenous and European factors. The resulting synthesis is a radical reinterpretation of Hawaiian warfare that treats it as an evolving process heavily imbued with cultural meaning. Hawaiian history is also shown to be characterised by fluid changing circumstances, including crucial turning points when options were adopted that took elements of Hawaiian society on paths of development that proved decisive for political unification. These watershed moments were neither inevitable nor predictable. Perhaps the greatest omission in the standard discourse on the political evolution of Hawaiian society is the almost total exclusion of modern Indigenous Hawaiian scholarship on this topic. Modern historians from the Hawai'inuikea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa argue that political leadership and socioeconomic organisation were much more consensus-based than is usually allowed for. Above all, this study finds modern Indigenous Hawaiian studies a much better fit with the historical evidence than more conventional scholarship.
Contents	Three Key Debates: Positioning Hawai'i in World History -- Gathering Momentum: Power in Hawai'i to 1770 -- The Hawaiian Political Transformation from 1770 to 1796 -- The Hawaiian Military Transformation from 1770 to 1796 -- The Pursuit of Power in Hawai'i from 1780 to 1796 -- Creating a Kingdom: Hawai'i from 1796 to 1819 -- The Hawaiian Achievement in Comparative Perspective.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-306) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Hawaii -- History -- To 1893.
	Hawaii -- Social conditions.
	Hawaii -- Politics and government.
	Hawaiians -- First contact with other peoples.
	Hawaii -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1893.
	Hawaii -- Conditions sociales.
	Hawaii -- Politique et gouvernement.
	Hawaïens -- Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples.
	Political Science -- Security (national & International)
	History -- African American & Black.
	Political Science.
	Hawaiians -- First contact with other peoples
	Politics and government
	Social conditions
	Hawaii https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpDHCHq4YQD6kcFmkwpyd
	Society & Social Sciences.
	History & Archaeology.
Chronological Term	To 1893
Indexed Term	Australian
Genre/Form	History
Other Form:	Print version: D'Arcy, Paul. Transforming Hawai‘i. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2018 (OCoLC)1038791774
ISBN	9781760461744 (electronic bk.)
	1760461741 (electronic bk.)
	9781760461737 (paperback)
	1760461733 (paperback)
Standard No.	AU@ 000065052566