The Value of Hawai'i: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future

by Jonathon Kay Kamakawio'ole Osorio and Craig Howes

Book Overview

How did we get here? Three-and-a-half-day school weeks. Prisoners farmed out to the mainland. Tent camps for the migratory homeless. A blinkered dependence on tourism and the military for virtually all economic activity. The steady degradation of already degraded land. Contempt for anyone employed in education, health, and social service. An almost theological belief in the evil of taxes.

At a time when new leaders will be elected, and new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835298
• ISBN13: 9780824835293
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"