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Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai‘i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understanding of the social, political, and economic changes that have unfolded since has been limited until recently by how little we knew about the first five centuries of settlement.
Building on new archaeological and historical research, Sumner La Croix assembles here the economic history of Hawai‘i from the first Polynesian settlements in 1200 through US colonization, the formation of statehood, and to the present day. He shows how the political and economic institutions that emerged and evolved in Hawai‘i during its three centuries of global isolation allowed an economically and culturally rich society to emerge, flourish, and ultimately survive annexation and colonization by the United States. The story of a small, open economy struggling to adapt its institutions to changes in the global economy, Hawai‘i offers broadly instructive conclusions about economic evolution and development, political institutions, and native Hawaiian rights.
Building on new archaeological and historical research, Sumner La Croix assembles here the economic history of Hawai‘i from the first Polynesian settlements in 1200 through US colonization, the formation of statehood, and to the present day. He shows how the political and economic institutions that emerged and evolved in Hawai‘i during its three centuries of global isolation allowed an economically and culturally rich society to emerge, flourish, and ultimately survive annexation and colonization by the United States. The story of a small, open economy struggling to adapt its institutions to changes in the global economy, Hawai‘i offers broadly instructive conclusions about economic evolution and development, political institutions, and native Hawaiian rights.
Read Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change Markets and Governments in Economic History Sumner La Croix Books
"This is an economic history of Hawaii, so it's a different perspective than most of the books that I'm familiar with - which usually focus more on the political or cultural history of the islands. This perspective helped provide context for a lot of events that I never completely understood (such as the Mahele, or the Bayonet Constitution). Lacroix also compiles a lot of the more recent archaeological work to provide an updated early history of Hawaii. It's the same general story we all know, but with fascinating new details (such as how a shift in wind patterns might have led to an end to the great sea voyages, or just how fast the Polynesians settled the more remote islands). This is the first time I've seen a comprehensive overview of all the recent research.
Lacroix also finds patterns in Hawaiian history that I hadn't noticed before. He looks a lot at how land redistribution was used to consolidate power from the early smaller kingdoms through Kamehameha I to the creation of the modern state, and how the intense consolidation of power here was recreated with each regime change over the past 800 years.
Highly recommended."
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Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change Markets and Governments in Economic History Sumner La Croix Books Reviews
- This is an economic history of Hawaii, so it's a different perspective than most of the books that I'm familiar with - which usually focus more on the political or cultural history of the islands. This perspective helped provide context for a lot of events that I never completely understood (such as the Mahele, or the Bayonet Constitution). Lacroix also compiles a lot of the more recent archaeological work to provide an updated early history of Hawaii. It's the same general story we all know, but with fascinating new details (such as how a shift in wind patterns might have led to an end to the great sea voyages, or just how fast the Polynesians settled the more remote islands). This is the first time I've seen a comprehensive overview of all the recent research.
Lacroix also finds patterns in Hawaiian history that I hadn't noticed before. He looks a lot at how land redistribution was used to consolidate power from the early smaller kingdoms through Kamehameha I to the creation of the modern state, and how the intense consolidation of power here was recreated with each regime change over the past 800 years.
Highly recommended.
