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History 284: History of the Hawaiian Islands: Books

Native Voices / Perspectives

Mai paʻa i ka leo : historical voice in Hawaiian primary materials : looking forward and listening back by Puakea Nogelmeier; Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts Program Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU625 .N64 2010

Publication Date: 2010

"...focuses on how Hawaiian knowledge from the past has been handled in a basically English speaking world. Author M. Puakea Nogelmeier highlights the need to recognize and reincorporate the full array of historical Hawaiian resources into the foundations of current knowledge"-
Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii by Samuel M. Kamakau; Lilikala Kame'Eleihiwa (Introduction by); Mary Kawena Pukui (Translator)
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.65 .K3413 1992

Publication Date: 1992
Ka Mo'olelo Hawaii (Hawaiian Antiquities) by David Malo; Malcolm N. Chun (Editor)
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU625 .M25 1987

Publication Date: 1987-06-01

Text in Hawaiian.
Tales and Traditions of the People of Old = Nā moʻolelo o ka poʻe kahiko by S. M. Kamakau
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.5 .K27 1993

Publication Date: 1993
Emma: Hawaiʻiʼs Remarkable queen : a Biography by George S. Kanahele
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU627.17.E45 K36 1999

Publication Date: 1999
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani by Queen Queen Liliuokalani
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU627.2 .L72 2013

Publication Date: 2013

Also available online - click on title.
Native Planters of Old Hawaii by E. S. Handy; E. G. Handy; Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: Rare AM101 .B442 no.233 1991

Publication Date: 1972
The Value of Hawaii: knowing the past, shaping the future by Craig Howes (Editor); Jonathan K. K. Osorio (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010

Print copy also available in the Library
Hawaii Pacific DU627.8 .V35 2010
Native Land and Foreign Desires by Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.65 .K357 1992

Publication Date: 1992

"A history of land tenure change in Hawaiʻi from traditional times until the 1848 Māhele, including an analysis of Hawaiian Aliʻi Nui and American Calvinists."
Dismembering Lahui by Jonathan K. K. Osorio
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.6 .O86 2002

Publication Date: 2002

"Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887..."
Aloha Betrayed by Noenoe K. Silva
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU625 .S49 2004

Publication Date: 2004
Nā kukui pio ʻole = The inextinguishable torches : the biographies of three early Native Hawaiian scholars : Davida Malo, S.N. Haleʻole and S.M. Kamakau by Malcom Chun
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.9 .C48 1993

Publication Date: 1993
The Power of the Steel-Tipped Pen by Noenoe K. Silva
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU624.5 .S48 2017

Publication Date: 2017

Western Views

Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia by Patrick Vinton Kirch; Roger C. Green
Call Number: Electronic Book

Publication Date: 2001

Also available in print in the Library:
Hawaii Pacific Collection
DU624.65 .K573 2001
Fornander's Ancient History of the Hawaiian People by Abraham Fornander
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU625 .F67 1996

Publication Date: 1996
An Account of the Polynesian Race by Abraham Fornander
Call Number: RARE GN670 .F62 1973

Publication Date: 1973

Volumes 1 and 3 are available online through the Hathi Trust:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007687396

Volume II is available online through:
https://archive.org/details/accountofpolynes02fornuoft/page/n7
Nation Within: the History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i by Tom Coffman
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU627.4 .C64 2016

ISBN: 0822361973

Publication Date: 2016
The Island Edge of America: a Political History of Hawaii by Tom Coffman
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU627.5 .C64 2003

Publication Date: 2003
Shoal of Time by Gavan Daws
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU625 .D28 1974

Publication Date: 1974
The Hawaiian Kingdom by Ralph S. Kuykendall
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU627 .K8

Publication Date: 1980

3 volumes covering the years 1778-1893
Kauai: the Separate Kingdom by Edward Joesting
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific DU628.K3 J63 1987 :

Publication Date: 1988