Unfamiliar Fishes

Unfamiliar Fishes
Author: Sarah Vowell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101486457
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From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

The Providential Life & Heritage of Henry Obookiah

The Providential Life & Heritage of Henry Obookiah
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Christopher L. Cook
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Converts
ISBN: 9780692440964
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The publication of the Memoirs of Henry Obookiah inspired the sending of the Sandwich Islands Mission to Hawaii from Boston in 1819. Henry Obookiah, a young Native Hawaiian man known in Hawai'i as Opukahaia, in 1808 left his life as an apprentice kahuna at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii Island for the sea. He rose from sailor to scholar to evangelical Christian celebrity in New England. Obookiah's life and death, as told in his memorial biography, made him a leading Second Great Awakening figure in America, Great Britain and beyond. For almost two-hundred years this classic account has stood as Obookiah's definitive biography. Now following a decades-long quest seeking unknown aspects of the life of Henry Obookiah in Hawaii and New England, Hawaii-based author Christopher L. Cook is unveiling The Providential Life & Heritage of Henry Obookiah. This new account of the life and times of Obookiah greatly expands on the Memoirs of Henry Obookiah. Traveling to the places Obookiah journeyed in his pilgrimage of faith, Cook has uncovered a wealth of new and often surprising details. He lays out a providential chain of events that through Obookiah's faith led to Hawaii being declared a Christian kingdom by 1840. New chapters tell of the influence of New Haven sea captain Caleb Brintnall in the life of Obookiah; of the uncovering the 1808 murder in Honolulu of a New Haven ship's officer that likely altered Hawaii's history; of how Obookiah was able to translate Bible scriptures from ancient Hebrew into the Hawaiian language; of the influence of Obookiah and his close friend Hopu in the lives of Harriet Beecher Stowe and other key figures in the anti-slavery movement in America. Cook tells Obookiah's influence being at the foundation of the Sandwich Islands Mission in Hawaii; of the providential arrival of a wave of South Pacific Polynesian influence brought by Tahitian Christians both prior to and following the American missionaries arrival in Hawaii. The Providential Life & Heritage of Henry Obookiah non-fiction account challenges the accuracy, scope, and drama of author James Michener's blockbuster novel Hawaii, in particular his fictional portrayal of the missionaries sent to Hawaii. Hawaii has been read as historical fact by generations of readers, though the acclaimed author's tale is told as historical fiction by Michener, his own fictional interpretation.

Memoirs of Henry Obookiah

Memoirs of Henry Obookiah
Author: Edwin Welles Dwight
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780344250316
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Stranger Citizens

Stranger Citizens
Author: John McNelis O'Keefe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501756168
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Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation. John McNelis O'Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made not only by white men immigrating from Europe; immigrants of color were able to secure footholds of rights and citizenship, while migrant women asserted legal independence, challenging traditional notions of women's subordination. Stranger Citizens emphasizes the making of citizenship from the perspectives of migrants themselves, and demonstrates the rich varieties and understandings of citizenship and personhood exercised by foreign migrants and refugees. O'Keefe boldly reverses the top-down model wherein citizenship was constructed only by political leaders and the courts. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Memoirs of Henry Obookiah; a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School

Memoirs of Henry Obookiah; a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School
Author: Edwin Welles Dwight
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230418780
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... if twuv Obookiah was a native of Owhy1.1 e, ihe most important of the Sandwich islands. He was born about the year 1792. His parents ranked with the common people; but his mother was distantly related to the family of the king. Her name was Kummoolah. The name of his father is unknown. When Obookiah was at the age of ten or twelve, both his parents were slain before his eyes, " in a war," to use his own language, " made after the old king died, to see who should be the greatest among them." The only surviving member of the family, besides himself, was an infant brother two or three months old. This little brother he hoped to save from the fate of his parents, and took him upon his back to flee from the enemy; but was overtaken, and the child cruelly destroyed. The circumstances of this interesting scene are so accurately stated in a "Narrative" already before the public, that that account will be here transcribed. The facts were taken from the relation of Obookiah. " Two parties were contending for the dominion of the island. The warriors met, and a dreadful slaughter ensued. The party to which the father of Obookiah belonged was overpowered. The conquerors having driven their antagonists from the field, next turned their rage upon the villages and families of the vanquished. The alarm was given of their approach. The father, taking his wife and two children, fled to the mountains There he concealed himself for several days with his family in a cave. But, at length, being driven by thirst to leave their retreat, they went in quest of water to a neighbouring spring. Here they were surprised by a party of the enemy while in the act of quenching their thirst. The father, obeying the first impulse of nature, fled, but the cries of his wife...