Hawaii, America’s Sugar Territory 1898-1959
Author: | Melendy, H. |
Year: | 1999 |
Pages: | 360 |
ISBN: | 0-7734-7998-8 978-0-7734-7998-2 |
Price: | $239.95 + shipping |
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This study is a definitive text on Hawaii's territorial period, relying primarily on archival materials. It stresses the Territory's importance to West Coast defense and the islands' unique sugar and pineapple economy dependence upon support by the federal government. It also examines how local problems such as land ownership and racial diversity, often created bitter dissension.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Maps, Photographs, Foreword, Preface
1.Road to Annexation
2.Transition from Annexation to Territory
3.Creating Hawaii's Territorial Government
4.The Territorial Governor
5.Politics: The Territorial Legislature and Delegates
6.Problems Confronting the First Republican Governors
7.Hawaiians Fight for Their Land
8.King Sugar
9.Hawaii's Pluralistic Society
10.The First Democratic Coming
11.World War I Comes to Hawaii
12.Building the Pacific Defense Bastion
13.The 1920s – A Republican Decade
14.Land and the Hawaiian Rehabilitation Bill
15.Internal Improvements and Health
16.The Ala Moana and Massie Cases
17.Territorial Judges
18.Concerns about the Japanese in Hawaii
19.The Second Democratic Coming
20.The New Deal in Hawaii
21.Hawaii and World War II
22.Labor Seeks its Place
23.The Last Republican Governors
24.Hawaii Confronts the Communism Issue
25.The Search for Statehood
26.Conclusion
Appendices: Governors of Hawaii; Secretaries of the Territory of Hawaii; Territorial Delegates; United States District Court Judges; Territory of Hawaii Supreme Court Justices; Territory of Hawaii Circuit Judges
Bibliography; Index
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