Carrollton by PVII

Books Reviewed in the Hawaiian Journal of History, 1986–2007 (Volumes 20 –41)

A

Abbott, Isabella Aiona
La‘au Hawai‘i: Traditional Hawaiian Use of Plants (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1992). Reviewed by Benjamin C. Stone and S. H. Sohmer. 27 (1993): 251–252.
Adler, Jacob, and Robert M. Kamins
The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson, Hawaii's Minister of Everything (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986). Reviewed by George Simson. 21 (1987): 171–175.
Alailima, Fay
Aggie Grey: A Samoan Saga (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1988). Reviewed by Gay Sibley. 23 (1989): 268–271.
Allen, Helena G.
Sanford Ballard Dole: Hawaii's Only President, 1844–1926 (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1988). Reviewed by Alfred L. Castle. 23 (1989): 259–262.
Andrade, Ernest, Jr.
Unconquerable Rebel: Robert W. Wilcox and Hawaiian Politics, 1880–1903 (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1996). Reviewed by Patricia M. Alvarez. 31 (1997): 219–223.
Andrews, J. R. H.
The Southern Ark: Zoological Discovery in New Zealand 1769–1900 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 22 (1988): 262–264.
Anglade, M. G. Bosseront d'
A Tree in Bud: The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1889–1893 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987). Reviewed by Charles S. Bouslog. 22 (1988): 277–281.
Asato, Noriko
Teaching Mikadoism: The Attack on Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii, California, and Washington, 1919-1927 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006). Reviewed by Eileen H. Tamura. 40 (2006): 206–207.

B

Bailey, Beth, and David Farber
The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (New York: Free Press, 1992). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 28 (1994): 163-164.
Barratt, Glynn
The Russian Discovery of Hawai`i: The Ethnographic and Historic Record (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1987). Reviewed by Basil Dmytryshyn. 23 (1989): 251-253.
The Russian View of Honolulu, 1809-1826 (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988). Reviewed by Basil Dmytryshyn. 23 (1989): 251-253.
Beamer, Nona
Na Mele Hula: A Collection of Hawaiian Hula Chants, vol. 1 (La`ie, Hawaii: Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus, 1987). Reviewed by Elizabeth Tatar. 22 (1988): 281-283.
Beechert, Edward D.
Honolulu: Crossroads of the Pacific (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991). Reviewed by David A. Chappell. 26 (1992): 279-281.
Working in Hawaii: A Labor History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985). Reviewed by Thomas K. Hitch. 20 (1986): 229-231.
Berry, Paul
All Men Are Brothers: The Life & Times of Francis Williams Damon (Honolulu: Cyril Press, 2005). Reviewed by Bob Dye. 41 (2007): 179–181.
Bingham, Hiram
Selected Writings of Hiram Bingham 1814–1869. Missionary to the Hawaiian Islands: To Raise the Lord's Banner (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988). Reviewed by John Garrett. 23 (1989): 253–255.
Blackford, Mansel
Fragile Paradise: The impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959–2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001). Reviewed by Gail Ainsworth. 36 (2002): 163–165
Boelen, Jacobus
A Merchant's Perspective: Captain Jacobus Boelen's Narrative of His Visit to Hawai`i in 1828 (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 1988). Reviewed by Jane Silverman. 22 (1988): 271–274.
Boylan, Dan, and T. Michael Holmes
John A. Burns: The Man and his Times (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000). Reviewed by Tom Coffman. 35 (2001): 149–151.
Britsch, R. Lanier
Moramona: The Mormons in Hawaii (Laie, Hawaii: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1989). Reviewed by James F. Cartwright. 24 (1990): 205–206.
Brown, DeSoto
Hawaii Goes to War: Life in Hawaii from Pearl Harbor to Peace (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1989). Reviewed by Bertrand Kobayashi. 24 (1990): 208–209.
Buck, Elizabeth
Paradise Remade: The Politics of Culture and History in Hawai`i (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993). Reviewed by Kevin M. Roddy. 28 (1994): 167-169.
Budnick, Rich
Hawaii's Forgotten History 1900–1999: The Good . . . the Bad . . . the Embarrassing (Honolulu: Aloha Press, 2005). Reviewed by Brian Richardson. 40 (2006): 218–220.
Burlingame, Burl
Advance Force Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Navy's Underwater Assault on America (Kailua, Hawaii: Pacific Monograph, 1992). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 27 (1993): 252-254.
Bushnell, O. A.
The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993). Reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby. 28 (1994): 169-171.

C

Cahill, Emmett
Hawaiian Stamps: An Illustrated History (Volcano, Hawaii: Orchid Isle Publishers, 1987). Reviewed by Ray E. Cubberly. 23 (1989): 256–258.

The Shipmans of East Hawai‘i (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1996). Reviewed by Sandra Wagner-Wright. 31 (1997): 223-224.
Campbell, Ian
A History of the Pacific Islands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Reviewed by Karen M. Peacock. 25 (1991): 211-212.
Castle, Alfred L.
A Century of Philanthropy: A History of the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 1992). Reviewed by Bob Krauss. 27 (1993): 254-255.
Chang, Thelma; Robert W. Bone; and John M. Black
Hawai`i ka `oihana hokele: The History of Hawai`i's Hotel Industry 1840s-1990 (Honolulu: Trade Publishing, 1990). Reviewed by Robert C. Schmitt. 25 (1991): 219-220.
Chapin, Helen Geracimos
Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawai`i (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1996). Reviewed by Ronn Ronck. 31 (1997): 224-228.
Chaplin, George
Presstime in Paradise: The Life and Times of the Honolulu Advertiser, 1856-1995 (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1998). Reviewed by Helen Geracimos Chapin. 33 (1999): 213-215.
Charlot, John
The Kamapua`a Literature: The Classical Traditions of the Hawaiian Pig God as a Body of Literature (La`ie, Hawaii: Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus, 1984). Reviewed by Esther T. Mookini. 22 (1988): 261.
Cheever, David; Scott Cheever; Janine S. Clifford; Frank S. Haines; and Douglas Peebles
Pōhaku: The Art & Architecture of Stonework in Hawai‘i (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 2003). Reviewed by Dennis P. Doordan. 38 (2004): 200–202.
Cisco, Dan
Hawaii Sports: History, Facts, Statistics(Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1999). Reviewed by James Joseph Donovan III. 34 (2000): 219-220.
Clarke, Thurston
Pearl Harbor Ghosts: A Journey to Hawaii, Then and Now (New York: William Morrow, 1991). Reviewed by James F. Cartwright. 26 (1992): 285–289.
Coffman, Tom
Nation Within: The Story of America's Annexation of the Nation of Hawai'i (Kane'ohe, Hawai'i: Epicenter, 1998). Reviewed by Jonathan K. Osorio. 33 (1999): 215–220.
Cooper, George, and Gavan Daws
Land and Power in Hawaii (Honolulu: Benchmark Books, 1985). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 20 (1986): 238–241.
Cowan-Smith, Virginia, and Bonnie Domrose Stone
Aloha Cowboy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by Carol Silva. 23 (1989): 271–272.
Culliney, John L.
Islands in a Far Sea: Nature and Man in Hawaii (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 23 (1989): 237–240.

Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawai'i, rev. ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006). Reviewed by Phyllis Turnbull. 41 (2007): 194–197.
Cutler, Robert W. P.
The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003). Reviewed by Alfred D. Morris. 38 (2004): 195–197.

D

Davenport, William H.
Pi‘o, An Enquiry into the Marriage of Brothers and Sisters and Other Close Relatives in Old Hawai‘i (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994). Reviewed by Rubellite K. Johnson. 30 (1996): 231–235.
Davis, Lynn Ann
Photography in Hawai‘i. Special issue of History of Photography 25:3 (2001). Reviewed by Lori Pierce. 36 (2002): 170–178.
Davis, Lynn Ann, with Nelson Foster
A Photographer in the Kingdom: Christian J. Hedemann's Early Images of Hawaii (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1988). Reviewed by Alfred Preis. 23 (1989): 258–259.
Daws, Gavan
Hawaii: The Islands of Life (Honolulu: Signature Publishing, 1988). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 23 (1989): 237–240.

Hawaii 1959-1989: The First Thirty Years of the Aloha State with Memorable Photographs from the Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu: Publishers Group Hawaii, 1989). Reviewed by Jay Hartwell. 24 (1990): 211-213.

Prisoners of the Japanese (New York: William Morrow, 1994). Reviewed by Donald W. Boose, Jr. 29 (1995): 189-192.
Day, A. Grove
Mad about Islands: Novelists of a Vanished Pacific (Honolulu: Mutual Pubishing, 1987). Reviewed by Gay Sibley. 22 (1988): 274-277.
Dean, Love
The Lighthouses of Hawai`i (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991). Reviewed by Earl R. Hinz. 26 (1992): 277-279.
Dening, Greg
Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Reviewed by Charles E. Frankel. 27 (1993): 256-257.
Denoon, Donald, with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Maleisea, and Karen Nero
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reviewed by Rod Edmond. 32 (1998): 207-210.
Desmond, Jane C.
Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). Reviewed by Phyllis Turnbull. 35 (2001): 153–158.
Donohugh, Donald
The Story of Koloa, A Kaua‘i Plantation Town (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2001). Reviewed by Andrew F. Bushnell. 36 (2002): 166–170.
Dotts, Cecil K., and Mildred Sikkema
Challenging the Status Quo: Public Education in Hawaii, 1840–1980 (Honolulu: Hawaii Education Association, 1994). Reviewed by Eileen H. Tamura. 29 (1995): 192–193.
Druett, Joan
Exotic Intruders: The Introduction of Plants and Animals Into New Zealand (Auckland: Heinemann, 1983). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 21 (1987): 161–164.
She Was a Sister Sailor: The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster, 1845–1851 (Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1992). Reviewed by Jane Silverman. 28 (1994): 165–166.
Dukas, Neil Bernard
A Military History of Sovereign Hawai‘i (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2004). Reviewed by Thomas R. Wolforth. 40 (2006): 201–204.
Dunmore, John
Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991). Reviewed by David A. Chappell. 26 (1992): 265–267.
Dutton, Clarence Edward
Hawaiian Volcanoes (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005). Reviewed by Floyd W. McCoy. 41 (2007): 188–190.
Dye, Bob
Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai`i (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997). Reviewed by Loretta Pang. 32 (1998): 210–215.

E

Edmond, Rod
Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Reviewed by Gary Pak. 32 (1998): 215–217.
Ewanchuk, Michael
Hawaiian Ordeal: Ukrainian Contract Workers 1897–1919 (Winnipeg: M. Ewanchuk, 1986). Reviewed by Patricia Polansky. 21 (1987): 178–180.
Eynikel, Hilde
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (New York: Alba House, 1999). Reviewed by Mona R. Bomgaars. 34 (2000): 221-223.

F

Ferguson, Kathy E., and Phyllis Turnbull
Oh Say, Can You See? The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai‘i (Minnepolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999). Reviewed by R.D.K. Herman. 34 (2000): 223-225.
Finney, Ben
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). Reviewed by David A. Chappell. 29 (1995): 193-195.
Fitzpatrick, Gary L.
The Early Mapping of Hawai`i, vol. 1 (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986). Reviewed by Lee S. Motteler. 21 (1987): 164-167.
Forbes, David W.
Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941 (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992). Reviewed by Roger G. Rose. 26 (1992): 261-265.
Treasures of Hawaiian History: From the Collection of the Hawaiian Historical Society (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 1992). Reviewed by Linda K. Menton. 27 (1993): 257-258.
 
Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780–1900, Vol. I: 1780–1830 (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1999). Reviewed by Chieko Tachihata. 34 (2000): 225-229.
Forster, Honore
The South Sea Whaler: An Annotated Bibliography (Sharon: Kendall Whaling Museum, 1985). Reviewed by Jane Silverman. 21 (1987): 167-171.
Frierson, Pamela
The Burning Island: A Journey Through Myth and History in Volcano Country, Hawai`i (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991). Reviewed by Russell A. Apple. 26 (1992): 259-261.

G

Gowans, Alan; Daina Penkiunas; and Augie Salbosa
Fruitful Fields: American Missionary Churches in Hawaii (Honolulu: Department of Land and Natural Resources, 1993). Reviewed by William R. Chapman. 28 (1994): 171–173.
Grant, Glen, and Bennett Hymer
Hawai‘i Looking Back: An Illustrated History of the Islands (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2000). Reviewed by Lori Pierce. 36 (2002): 170–178.
Greevy, Ed, and Haunani-Kay Trask
Kū'ē: Thirty Years of Land Struggles in Hawai‘i (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2004). Reviewed by Ty Kāwika Tengan and J. Lahela A. Perry. 39 (2005): 171–175.
Grimshaw, Patricia
Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Reviewed by Sandra Wagner-Wright. 24 (1990): 200–202.

H

Haar, Francis
Francis Haar: A Lifetime of Images (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001). Reviewed by Lew Andrews. 36 (2002): 178–181
Hagen, Jerome T.
War in the Pacific (Honolulu: Hawai‘i Pacific University, 1998). Reviewed by E. Rick Stepien. 32 (1998): 218–220.
Hall, Dale E.
The Honolulu Symphony: A Century of Music (Honolulu: Goodale Publishing, 2002). Reviewed by E. Douglas Bomberger. 37 (2003): 229–232.
Harrison, Craig S.
Seabirds of Hawaii: Natural History and Conservation (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. Reviewed by John R. Henderson. 25 (1991): 222–224.
Hasager, Ulla, and Jonathan Friedman, ed.
Hawai‘i: Return to Nationhood (Copenhagen: IWGIA-Document 75, 1994). Reviewed by Samuel P. King. 29 (1995): 195–196.
Hibbard, Don, and David Franzen
The View from Diamond Head, Royal Residence to Urban Resort (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986). Reviewed by Robert C. Schmitt. 21 (1987): 180–182.
Holmes, T. Michael
The Specter of Communism in Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Reviewed by Edward D. Beechert. 28 (1994): 173–175.
Holt, John Dominis
The Art of Featherwork in Old Hawai`i (Honolulu: Topgallant, 1985). Reviewed by Carol L. Silva. 20 (1986): 222–223.
Hongo, Garrett
Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai`i (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). Reviewed by Henry B. Chapin. 30 (1996): 235–237.
Hooper, Steven
Pacific Encounters: Art & Diversity in Polynesia 1760–1860 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006). Reviewed by Stu Dawrs. 41 (2007): 176–179.
Horowitz, Tony
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (New York: Henry Holt, 2002). Reviewed by Alwyn Peel. 37 (2003): 232–234.
Hughes, Judith Dean Gething
Women and Children First: The Life and Times of Elsie Wilcox of Kaua`i (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1996). Reviewed by Patricia M. Alvarez. 31 (1997): 219–223.

I

J

Jay, Robert
The Architecture of Charles W. Dickey: Hawaii and California (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992). Reviewed by Paul F. Morgan. 27 (1993):259-261.
Joesting, Edward
Kauai: The Separate Kingdom (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 20 (1986):226–228.
Johnson, Donald D.
The City and County of Honolulu: A Governmental Chronicle (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 26 (1992): 281–283.
Judd, Walter F.
Hawai‘i Joins the World (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1999). Reviewed by Bob Dye. 34 (2000): 229–230.
Jung, Moon-Kie
Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). Reviewed by John P. Rosa. 41 (2007): 190–194.

K

Kaeppler, Adrienne L., and Elizabeth Tatar
Hula Pahu: Hawaiian Drum Dances, 2 vol. (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1993). Reviewed by Kaha`i Topolinski. 29 (1995): 196–199.
Kamakau, Samuel M.
Ke Kumu Aupuni (Honolulu: `Ahahui `Olelo Hawai`i, 1996). Reviewed by Naomi Clarke Losch. 32 (1998): 221–223.
Kame`eleihiwa, Lilikala
Native Land and Foreign Desire—Pehea La E Pono Ai? (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1992). Reviewed by Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie. 27 (1993): 261–264.
Kamins, Robert M., and Robert E. Potter
Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawai'i (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998). Reviewed by James F. Cartwright. 33 (1998): 220–222.
Kanahele, George Hu`eu Sanford
Ku Kanaka, Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian Values (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986). Reviewed by John Dominis Holt. 21 (1987): 158-160.

Pauahi: The Kamehameha Legacy (Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press, 1986). Reviewed by Linda K. Menton. 21 (1987): 175-178.

Waikiki 100 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: An Untold Story (Honolulu: Queen Emma Foundation, 1995). Reviewed by Susan Yim. 31 (1997): 228-230.
Kawakami, Barbara F.
Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii: 1885–1921 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993). Reviewed by Eileen H. Tamura. 28 (1994): 175–176.
King, Samuel P., and Randall W. Roth
Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006). Reviewed by Warren Iwasa. 41 (2007): 181–183.
Kinzer, Stephen
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (New York: Times Books, 2006). Reviewed by Alfred L. Castle. 41 (2007): 171–173.
Kirch, Patrick V.
Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985). Reviewed by Alexander Spoehr. 20 (1986): 215–217.
Kirch, Patrick V., and Roger C. Green
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Jeff Marck. 36 (2002): 187–191.
Kirch, Patrick V., and Marshall Sahlins
Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Reviewed by Roger G. Rose. 27 (1993): 264–268.
Knaefler, Tomi Kaizawa
Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991). Reviewed by James F. Cartwright. 26 (1992): 285–289.
Knipe, Rita
The Water of Life, a Jungian Journey Through Hawaiian Myth (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Reviewed by Rubellite K. Johnson. 24 (1990): 191–193.
Krauss, Bob
Johnny Wilson: First Hawaiian Democrat (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Reviewed by George Simson. 29 (1995): 199–203.
Keneti: South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by Alexander Spoehr. 23 (1989): 265–268.
Kyselka, Will
An Ocean in Mind (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987). Reviewed by Tommy Holmes. 22 (1988): 289–290.

L

Lebra, Joyce Chapman
Women's Voices in Hawaii (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991). Reviewed by Barbara B. Peterson. 26 (1992): 283-285.
Levin, Wayne, and Anwei Skinsnes Law
Kalaupapa: A Portrait (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1989). Reviewed by Jay Hartwell. 24 (1990): 211-213.
Linn, Brian M.
Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Reviewed by Jerome T. Hagen. 32 (1998): 223-226.
Linnekin, Jocelyn
Children of the Land: Exchange and Status in a Hawaiian Community (Rutgers, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1985). Reviewed by Haunani-Kay Trask. 20 (1986): 232-235.
Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence: Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990). Reviewed by Nancy J. Pollock. 25 (1991): 215-217.
Lucas, Paul F. Nahoa
A Dictionary of Hawaiian Legal Land-Terms (Honolulu: Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and the University of Hawai`i Committee for the Preservation and Study of Hawaiian Language, Art and Culture, 1996). Reviewed by Kevin M. Roddy. 30 (1996): 237-239.

M

McDermott, John W.
Kelleys of the Outrigger (Honolulu: Orafa Publishing, 1990). Reviewed by Charles E. Frankel. 25 (1991): 221-222.
MacKay, David
In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science & Empire, 1780-1801 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985). Reviewed by Pauline N. King. 20 (1986): 223-224.
MacKenzie, Melody Kapilialoha, ed.
Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991). Reviewed by T. Lani Ma`a Lapilo. 26 (1992): 289-291.
MacLeod, Roy M., and Philip F. Rehbock, ed.
Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1994). Reviewed by Hampton L. Carson. 30 (1996): 239-241.

Nature in its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 23 (1989): 245-248.
Manoa Valley Residents
Manoa: The Story of a Valley. (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1994). Reviewed by Helen G. Chapin. 29 (1995): 203–204.
Matsuda, Mari J., ed.
Called from Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawai‘i (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992). Reviewed by Victoria N. Kneubuhl. 27 (1993): 268–269.
Merry, Sally Engle
Colonizing Hawai‘i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). Reviewed by Yuklin Aluli. 35 (2001): 151–153.
Merwin, W. S.
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). Reviewed by Robert Becker. 33 (1999): 223–227.
Miike, Lawrence H.
Water and the Law in Hawai‘i (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004). Reviewed by Carol MacLennan. 39 (2005): 164–166.
Miller, Char
Missions and Missionaries in the Pacific (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1985). Reviewed by Nancy J. Morris. 20 (1986): 224–226.
Mills, Peter R.
Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002). Reviewed by Lydia Black. 37 (2003): 223–225
Moffat, Riley M., and Gary L. Fitzpatrick
Surveying the Mahele: Mapping the Hawaiian Land Revolution (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1995). Reviewed by Tom Dye. 31 (1997): 230–232.
Mohr, James C.
Plague and Fire: Battling the Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Reviewed by Jonathan Erlen. 40 (2006): 204–206.
Mooney, H. A., and J. A. Drake
Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii (New York: Springer Verlag, 1986). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 21 (1987): 161–164.
Moore, Susanna
I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai‘i (Washington: National Geographic, 2003). Reviewed by Cristina Bacchilega. 39 (2005): 159–164.
Moriarty, Linda Paik
Ni‘ihau Shell Leis (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press). Reviewed by Marcia Morse. 21 (1987): 160–161.
Myatt, Carl
Hawaii, The Electric Century (Honolulu: Signature Publishing, 1991). Reviewed by Robert C. Schmitt. 26 (1992): 276–277.
Mykkänen, Juri
Inventing Politics: A New Political Anthropology of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003). Reviewed by Peter R. Mills. 38 (2004): 191–195.

N

Nakano, Jiro
Kona Echo: A Biography of Dr. Harvey Saburo Hayashi (Kona, Hawaii: Kona Historical Society, 1990). Reviewed by Sandra Wagner-Wright. 25 (1991): 217-219.
Nakuina, Moses K.
The Wind Gourd of La`amaomao (Honolulu: Kalamaku Press, 1990). Reviewed by Niklaus R. Schweizer. 25 (1991): 212-215.
Nordyke, Eleanor C.
The Peopling of Hawai`i, 2nd ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Reviewed by Jocelyn Linnekin. 24 (1990): 206-208.
Nordyke, Eleanor C., with James A. Mattison
Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 1999). Reviewed by Alwyn Peel. 34 (2000): 230-232.

O

Obeyesekere, Gananath
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992). Reviewed by O. A. Bushnell. (1993): 270.
Odo, Franklin
No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i during World War II (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004). Reviewed by Gary Okihiro. 40 (2006): 212–215.
Odo, Franklin, and Kazuko Sinoto
A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawai`i, 1885–1924 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1985). Reviewed by Roland Kotani. 20 (1986): 236–238.
Okihiro, Gary Y.
Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). Reviewed by Gail M. Nomura. 26 (1992): 272–274.
Oliver, Douglas L.
Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Reviewed by Roger G. Rose. 23 (1989): 240–245.
Return to Tahiti: Bligh's Second Breadfruit Voyage (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by Alexander Spoehr. 23 (1989): 248–250.
Osorio, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole
Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2002). Reviewed by Phyllis Turnbull. 37 (2003): 219–222.

P

Parker, Linda S.
Native American Estate: The Struggle Over Indian and Hawaiian Lands (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989). Reviewed by Jon M. Van Dyke. 24 (1990): 214–215.
Patterson, Wayne K.
The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988). Reviewed by Michael E. Macmillan. 23 (1989): 262–265.

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R

Rath, J. Arthur
Lost Generations: A Boy, A School, A Princess (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006). Reviewed by C. Kalani Beyer. 40(2006): 215-218.
Rehbock, Philip F., ed.
At Sea with the Scientifics: The Challenger Letters of Joseph Makin (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 28 (1994): 177–178.
Reinecke, John E.
The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924–1925 (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press,1996). Reviewed by Charles S. Sasaki. 31 (1997): 233–235.
Reynolds, Stephen
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The Honolulu Advertiser's Wildlife of Hawaii (Honolulu: The Honolulu Advertiser, 1986). Reviewed by E. Alison Kay. 21 (1987): 161–164.
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Rose, Roger G.
Reconciling the Past: Two Basketry Ka`ai and the Legendary Liloa and Lonoikamakahiki (Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1992). Reviewed by Davianna Pomaika`i McGregor. 28 (1994): 178–181.
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Scarr, Deryck
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Urville, Jules S. C. Dumont d'
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Valeri, Valerio
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Sugar Water: Hawaii's Plantation Ditches (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1996). Reviewed by Phyllis Turnbull. 31 (1997): 235–237.
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Wyban, Carol Araki
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Y

Yano, Christine R.
Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006). Reviewed by Nhi Lieu. 41 (2007): 183–185.
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Yost, Israel A. S.
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Yount, David
Who Runs the University? The Politics of Higher Education in Hawaii, 1985–1992 (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1996). Reviewed by Dan Boylan. 31 (1997): 238-239.

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Zweip, Mary
Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). Reviewed by Marilyn L. Reppun. 26 (1992):269-272.

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