...Warren S. Hunsberger Japanese Investment in the United States: With a Case Study of the Hawaiian Experience . By H. Robert Heller and Emily E. Heller . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1974 . xvii, 161 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendixes, Bibliography. $14.00 Copyright © Association...

...Charles H. Hunter The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom. A Political History . By Merze Tate . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1965 . ix, 374 , Index, Sources, Appendices, Bibliographical Notes, Tables. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

.... . .and to show that the ultimate annexation of Hawaii in 1898 was the product of typical American frontier expansion, and not a sporadic adventure in imperialism" (p. vii). That American sandalwood traders, whaling men, missionaries, derelicts, merchants, and planters played a dominant part in Hawaiian...

... and unassimilable minority. For the most part, Okihiro makes his case persuasively, and this reviewer has no major quarrel with any of his conclusions. I do, however, have some reservations concerning the issue of how prevalent his so-called "prevailing view" of Hawaiian interethnic relations actually was, or, more...

.... New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. xii, 304, vii, p. $3.50. Miss Fergusson has written a chatty travel-book that should provide pleasant reading for anyone interested in America's stake in the Pacific. It is evident that she quickly succumbed to the charm of the Hawaiian way of life, and her...

..., and operated more than 90 percent of all Oahu truck farms (p. 239). As a result, out of a total population of 160,000, only 1,466 Japanese Hawaiians were interned on the islands and another 1,875 sent to mainland relocation camps (p. 267). This was, of course, a reflection of economic necessity rather than any...

... inflation ended. It is not possible to take seriously the legend that Hawaiian sugar was in the doldrums until rescued by reciprocity. But this fault is a minor deficiency in a study which is generally well done, with exhaustive resort to original sources in the National Archives, the Archives of Hawaii...

..., the title itself, though attractive, is not sufficiently suggestive of the broader importance of the study. One can see a librarian filing it, first under "Buddhism," then under "Hawaii" and then, perhaps, under "Yankee." None of these is right. A sophisticated study of Buddhism it is not. Hawaiian history...

...” is perhaps the most unexpected and intriguing chapter. Here, Koikari disrupts depoliticized ties between the marginalized people of the Tōhoku region and indigenous Hawaiians, critiquing the erasures of Japanese and Western imperialism in the romanticized tropes of “paradise” and “healing.” She presents...

... and accurate account of recent economic and political developments in Communist China. STUART R. SCHRAM Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom. A Political History. By MERZE TATE. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1965. ix, 374, Index, Sources...

... expansive impulses originating in New England. Many passages link Hawaiian history and Pacific history with the domestic evolution of the United States, lessening the sense of remoteness of frontier events which by a century preceded the distance-smashing attack on Pearl Harbor. The book will aid...

... of these is right. A sophisticated study of Buddhism it is not. Hawaiian history it is, but the Hawaii classification puts it into that special category of local history of our most exotic state which has made the Hawaiian experience seem to be something entirely apart from the American, at least until Pearl Har...

... a dominant part in Hawaiian development throughout the nineteenth century is evident to a casual reader of Hawaiian history: Stevens, if he had wished, might have begun his story earlier in 1820 when the first shipload of missionaries came to the Islands from Tremont Street in Boston, or even before, in view...

... succumbed to the charm of the Hawaiian way of life, and her descriptions of the scenery and of the native Hawaiians are written with an enthusiastic pen. The men of Hawaii are Polynesian paragons who walk through life with a poetry of motion denied to clumsy Caucasians. Their handclasp is "warmer and softer...

... conversations are put in quotes although they were not recorded either by microphone or in 450 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY shorthand. And in a few places, notably the beginning and the end, the prose takes on more than a tinge of purple. Yet if this were fiction about a strong-minded Hawaiian chieftess, it would...

... QUARTERLY shorthand. And in a few places, notably the beginning and the end, the prose takes on more than a tinge of purple. Yet if this were fiction about a strong-minded Hawaiian chieftess, it would be very different. It would still have to draw more from Kaahumanu than anyone else. But it would almost...

... originating in New England. Many passages link Hawaiian history and Pacific history with the domestic evolution of the United States, lessening the sense of remoteness of frontier events which by a century preceded the distance-smashing attack on Pearl Harbor. The book will aid specialists in English...

.... $30.00. This book affords a glimpse into an isolated piece of history. In his preface, Patterson sets forth six goals for the work: "In addition to presenting a history of the early immigration of Koreans to America, this study addresses itself to key issues in Korean-American relations, Hawaiian history...

... in the dynamic atmosphere of global society. Both Tanabe and Chandler have chapters in Learman s book. Tanabe s Grafting Identity: the Hawaiian Branches of the Bodhi Tree is an exploration of selective appropriation by Pure Land priests in immigrant communities on the Hawaiian Islands. His creative...

... anthropology. Far from being unimportant, the data contained in this compendium will prove to be of great value, particularly to those who are planning to carry out systematic investigations in Polynesia. (Mischa Titiev, University of Michigan) Hawaiian Americans. An account of the mingling of Japanese...