The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawaii

by Tom Coffman

Book Overview

In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824826620
• ISBN13: 9780824826628
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"