American Literature

Book Overview

From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leading archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140225668
• ISBN13: 9780140225662
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.4" x 7.1"