California and Hawai'i Bound

California and Hawai'i Bound
Author: Henry Knight Lozano
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2021-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496227433

Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.