Research Guide: HIST 296: Hawaiian Collection Resources

Themes

Click the themes below to explore the primary and secondary sources. The sources are all intermingled with each other and are listed in chronological order.

American Imperialism in Hawaiʻi

Militarization of Hawaiʻi

Hawaiʻi's and World War II

Hawaiiʻi Politics Post-World War II

Hawaiʻi's Asia-Pacific Role

Hawaiʻi Multiculturalism and Race

Hawaiʻi Labor and the Economy

Research Help

If you need any help with your research topic, please feel free to reach to me at kapena@hawaii.edu. We can meet for a research consultation In-person or on Zoom.

The Hawaiian Collection is a closed stacks collection, meaning you must request any of the items you want using OneSearch, UHM Libraryʻs catalog. Once you place a request, the item will be available for you in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collection's Reading Room (5th Floor Hamilton Library) in about 10-15 minutes when we are open. Requesting instructions are here and our hours are here.

American Imperialism in Hawaiʻi

Miller-Davenport, Sarah. Gateway State : Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire. Princeton University Press, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185965.

Dijk, C. van (Cornelis). Pacific Strife : The Great Powers and Their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870-1914. Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

Fojas, Camilla. Islands of Empire : Pop Culture and U.S. Power. First edition., University of Texas Press, 2014, https://doi.org/10.7560/756304.

Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña. Securing Paradise : Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines. Duke University Press, 2013.

Skwiot, Christine. The Purposes of Paradise : U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawaiʻi. 1st ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200034.

Lyons, Paul. American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. Imagination. 1st ed., Routledge, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203698648.

Trask, Haunani-Kay, and Haunani-Kay Trask. From a Native Daughter : Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi. Rev. ed., University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1999, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824847029.

Johnson, Donald D. (Donald Dalton), and Gary Dean Best. The United States in the Pacific : Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899. Praeger, 1995, https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216030560.

Dé Ishtar, Zohl. Daughters of the Pacific. Spinifex Press, 1994.

Barrett, Gwynn William. American Annexation Proposals and Acquisitions in Polynesia, 1842-1872. 1960. University of Hawaii.

Mitchell, John H. (John Hipple). Hawaiian Investigation : Report of Subcommittee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico on General Conditions in Hawaii ... U.S. G.P.O., 1902.

Militarization in Hawaiʻi

Fernando, Jude Lal, editor. Resistance to Empire and Militarization : Reclaiming the Sacred. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2020.

Davis, Sasha. The Empires’ Edge : Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific. The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Woodbury, David O. (David Oakes). Builders for Battle, How the Pacific Naval Air Bases Were Constructed. Illustrated by Lili Réthi and Louis H. Ruyl, E.P. Dutton and Company Inc., 1946.

Pinkham, L. E. (Lucius Eugene). Shall the Mid-Pacific Base and Protector of the Pacific Coast, Hawaii, Be Starved into Submission from Lack of a Protected Merchant Marine? ... [publisher not identified], 1916.

Hawaiʻi and World War II

Konzett, Delia Caparoso. Hollywood’s Hawaii : Race, Nation, and War. Rutgers University Press, 2017.

Coffman, Tom. How Hawaiʻi Changed America. First ed., T. Coffman, 2014.

Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941 : Countdown to Infamy. First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Odo, Franklin. No Sword to Bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai’i during World War II. Temple University Press, 2004.

Iriye, Akira. Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War : A Brief History with Documents and Essays. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.

Takaki, Ronald T., et al. Democracy and Race : Asian Americans and World War II. Chelsea House, 1995.

Castle, Alfred L. Diplomatic Realism : William R. Castle, Jr., and American Foreign Policy, 1919-1953. Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation, 1998.

Stephan, John J. Hawaii under the Rising Sun : Japan’s Plans for Conquest after Pearl Harbor. University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

History of Army Port and Service Command. United States Army Forces, Middle Pacific, 1947.

Lind, Andrew W. The Japanese in Hawaii under War Conditions. American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1943.

Hawaiiʻi Politics Post-World War II

Whitehead, John S. Completing the Union : Alaska, Hawai’i, and the Battle for Statehood. University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Coffman, Tom. The Island Edge of America : A Political History of Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i Press, 2003, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824864781.

Takabuki, Matsuo. An Unlikely Revolutionary : Matsuo Takabuki and the Making of Modern Hawai’i : A Memoir. University of Hawai’i Press, 1998, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861438.

Ariyoshi, George R. With Obligation to All. Ariyoshi Foundation, 1997.

Bell, Roger J. (Roger John). Last among Equals : Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics. University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Lineberry, William P., editor. The New States: Alaska and Hawaii. H.W. Wilson Co., 1963.

Hawaiʻi's Asia-Pacific Role

Davidann, Jon Thares. Hawaiʻi at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War. University of Hawai’i Press, 2008.

Wilson, Rob. Reimagining the American Pacific : From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. Duke University Press, 2000.

Zhou, Xi. The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Nankai Institute of Economics. 1999. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Smyser, A. A. Hawaii as an East-West Bridge : A Survey of the Economic Value of Non-Tourist International Activities in Hawaii. East-West Center, 1990.

Kakazu, Hiroshi, and Hiroshi Yamauchi. International Resource Transfers and Development of Pacific Islands. HITAHR, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990.

Simone, Albert J. The Impact of University of Hawaii Research on the Future of Economic Development in Asia and the Pacific. 1988.

Hawaii’s Foreign Trade, 1959-1968; a Statistical Digest with Emphasis on Asia and the Pacific. 1969.

Hawaii Seeks Pacific Crossroads Role. 1968.

Smith, Julie, and Bob Krauss. Hawaii, Bridge to the East. [Pan American World Airways], 1967.

Burgess, James. Hawaii-U.S.A. : World Trade Center of the Pacific. [James Burgess], 1967.

Hawaii: Gateway to the New Pacific. 1966.

Hawaii, Potential in the Pacific. 1964.

Mark, Shelley M. (Shelley Muin). Role of Economic Research Center in the Proposed East-West Cultural and Technical Research Center. 1959.

Nickerson, Thomas. The University of Hawaii, 1907-1957. Higher Education in the Pacific, a Foundation for Freedom. 1957.

Annual Report. Pacific & Asian Affairs Council, 1956. (this is a serial title)

Hawaii, Gateway to Asia. 1955.

Lewis, Oscar. Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific. Random House, 1954.

Pacific Security ; a Report of the Policy Study Committee of the Institute of Pacific Relations of Hawaii. Distributed by Institute of Pacific Relations, 1952.

A Proposed Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii. 1952.

Furnas, J. C. (Joseph Chamberlain). Anatomy of Paradise : Hawaii and the Islands of the South Seas. W. Sloane Associates, 1948.

Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands, the Cross-Roads of the Pacific, the Isles of Constant Rainbows and Increasing Enchantment. Distributed by Patten Paper Corp., 1943.

Pacific Outpost Hawaii. J.A. Lee Pub. Co., 1942.

Nellist, George Ferguson Mitchell. Pan-Pacific Who’s Who, an International Reference Work : A Biographical Encyclopedia of Men and Women of Substantial Achievement in the Pan-Pacific Area: Alaska, Australia, British Columbia, California, Canal Zone, China, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Oregon, Philippines, Washington. Hawaii, Honolulu star-bulletin. ltd., 1941.

Pan Pacific Progress. Hawaiian edition., 1929.

Croly, Herbert David. The Human Potential in the Politics of the Pacific. 1927.

Spalding, E. I. A Brief History of the Pacific Club. [publisher not identified], 1923.

O’Hara, F. C. T. Report of the Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference : Held at Honolulu from October 26 to November 6, 1922, under the Auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union. Dept. of Trade and Commerce, 1923.

First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference, Honolulu, August 11-24, 1921 : Held under the Auspices of the Pan-Pacific Union and Called by the U.S. Department of Education. Invitations for Participation of Pacific Governments Sent through the Department of State of the United States of America : Program and Proceedings. [Pan-Pacific Union], 1921.

Hawaii, at the Pacific Cross-Roads. 1920.

Annual Report / Institute of Pacific Relations of Hawaii. Pacific House, 1919. (this is a serial title)

The Mid-Pacific Magazine. ill., 1911. (this is a serial title)

Perkins, George C. (George Clement), and H. P. Wood. The Key to the Pacific. 1908.

Hawaiʻi Multiculturalism and Race

Rohrer, Judy. Staking Claim : Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i. The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Okamura, Jonathan Y. Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaiʻi. Temple University Press, 2008.

Kwon, Brenda L. Beyond Ke’eaumoku : Koreans, Nationalism, and Local Culture in Hawai’i. Garland, 1999.

Okamura, Jonathan Y., and Roderick N. Labrador, editors. Pagdiriwang 1996 : Legacy and Vision of Hawaii’s Filipino Americans. Student Equity, Excellence & Diversity and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 1996.

Tamura, Eileen. Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity : The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane Fires : The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945. Temple University Press, 1991.

Akamu, Matthew. The Impact of Indochinese Refugees on Selected Governmental Services in Hawaii. 1978. University of Hawaii.

Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant). Hawaiian Americans; an Account of the Mingling of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and American Cultures. Archon Books, 1970.

America’s Race Problems; Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, April Twelfth and Thirteenth, MCMI. Negro Universities Press, 1969.

Lind, Andrew W. Race Relations Frontiers in Hawaii. 1962.

Park, Robert Ezra. Race and Culture. Free Press, 1950.

Nisei in Hawaii and the Pacific. Hawaii Circulation Co., 1947. (this is a serial title)

Rowland, Donald Winslow. Orientals and the Suffrage in Hawaii. 1943.

Smith, William Carlson. Americans in Process; a Study of Our Citizens of Oriental Ancestry. Edwards Bros., 1937.

Kinney, William A. Hawaii’s Capacity for Self-Government All but Destroyed. F.L. Jensen, 1927.

Smith, William Carlson. The Second Generation Oriental in America. 1927.

Hawaiʻi Labor and the Economy

Poblete, JoAnna. Islanders in the Empire : Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai’i. University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Jung, Moon-Kie. Reworking Race : The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Cartier, Carolyn L., and Alan A. Lew. Seductions of Place : Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes. Routledge, 2005.

Ariyoshi, Koji. From Kona to Yenan : The Political Memoirs of Koji Ariyoshi. Edited by Alice M. Beechert and Edward D. Beechert, Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University of Hawai’i Press, 2000.

Manicas, Peter T. Social Process in Hawaiʻi : A Reader. 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Kent, Noel J. Hawaii, Islands under the Influence. University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Hitch, Thomas Kemper, and Robert M. Kamins. Islands in Transition : The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaii’s Economy. First Hawaiian Bank, 1992.

Beechert, Edward D. Working in Hawaii : A Labor History. University of Hawaii Press, 1985.

Buchwach, Buck. Hawaii, U.S.A. : Communist Beachhead or Showcase for Americanism?. Hawaii Statehood Commission, 1957.

Rademaker, John Adrian. Hawaii Will Never Be Quite the Same Again: A Sociologist’s View of the Island Situation. 1945.