The kingdom and the republic : sovereign Hawai'i and the early United States /
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawaiʻi, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in pur...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] |
| Series: | America in the nineteenth century.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |