Shoal of Time a History of the Hawaiian Islands

by Daws, Gavan

• ISBN13: 9780824803247
• ISBN10: 0824803248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary

"Daws tells Hawaii's sparkling story well." --New York Times Book Review "[This] history is singularly satisfying... told with style and a nice wit." --Publishers Weekly Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xi
Captain Cook 1778--1779
High Islands at Daybreak	1	(7)
Kealakekua Bay	8	(3)
Lono	11	(5)
A Broken Mast	16	(8)
The End of Lono	24	(5)
Kamehameha 1779--1819
Enter Kamehameha	29	(2)
The Arts of War	31	(4)
The Lord of Hawaii	35	(2)
The Way to Nuuanu	37	(4)
Reach and Grasp	41	(3)
The Arts of Peace	44	(5)
Schaffer of Schafferthal	49	(4)
The King Is Dead	53	(8)
Missionaries and Merchants 1820--1839
Go Ye Forth into all the World	61	(4)
The Isles Shall Wait for his Law	65	(6)
Liholiho in London	71	(4)
Foreigners and French Priests	75	(7)
The Troubles of Boki	82	(5)
The Moral Wars	87	(4)
Bird Feathers	91	(3)
Once More the Priests	94	(3)
The Great Awakening	97	(5)
The End of the Holy Community	102	(4)
The Nation 1839--1854
Large and Unfamiliar Fishes	106	(6)
Their Finest Hour	112	(8)
Ladd & Co.	120	(4)
The Great Mahele	124	(4)
Who Is the Despotic Dr. Judd?	128	(4)
Treaties	132	(5)
When the Bough Breaks	137	(10)
Thirteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest	147	(7)
A New Society, A New Economy 1855--1876
The Dance of Life	154	(9)
The Dance of Death	163	(6)
Whales	169	(4)
Sugar	173	(10)
A Warning Voice	183	(7)
Whisky Bill	190	(7)
A Burning Torch	197	(10)
Out in the Noonday Sun 1876--1887
The Philosophy of the Planters	207	(6)
The Conscience of the King	213	(7)
The Shepherd Saint	220	(5)
His Royal Saccharinity	225	(10)
The Empire of the Calabash	235	(5)
A Cloud on the Sun	240	(11)
Aloha OE 1887--1900
Bulwarks of Liberty	251	(4)
Red Shirts	255	(3)
The Torch is Quenched	258	(6)
Liliuokalani	264	(6)
Royalists and Republicans	270	(10)
Farewell to Thee	280	(5)
Manifest Destiny	285	(8)
The Territory 1900--1941
Chiefs and Retainers	293	(9)
The Rising Sun	302	(9)
A Quota of Sweetness and Light	311	(6)
The Honolulu Martyrdom	317	(11)
Ultimate Loyalty	328	(11)
Now We Are All Haoles 1941--1959
Tora, Tora, Tora	339	(5)
War	344	(8)
A Commanding General is Never Wrong	352	(5)
Labor Pains	357	(11)
Unquiet Peace	368	(13)
Fiftieth Star	381	(11)
Epilogue	392	(5)
Acknowledgments	397	(2)
Bibliography	399	(18)
Notes	417	(58)
Index	475