Shoal of Time
A History of the Hawaiian Islands
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Narrated by:
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Kaipo Schwab
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By:
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Gavan Daws
About this listen
The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights. By late in the century, two strong American currents were running: one east from the islands, one west from the continent.
Sugar plantations had become Hawai'i's biggest moneymaker. And many of the biggest names in the business were of American blood - the sons of missionaries, devout capitalists.
At the same time, the United States was beginning to envision itself as an imperial naval power in the Pacific. This was the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, and Hawai'i's Pearl Harbor was a strategic key. In 1893, they forced Queen Lili'uokalani to surrender the kingdom to them, and straight away they offered Hawai'i to the United States. The Hawaiians resisted, but they could not hold off the big world.
From warrior culture to constitutional government, to unstable monarchy, to revolution, to provisional government, to republic, to annexation, it had taken barely a hundred years.
Finally, in 1959, Hawaii was admitted to the Union.... Fiftieth star... Aloha State.
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Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly - from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma - nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
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Extraordinary!
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Grandfather Dr. Death eats Applesauce on Christmas
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US Bash Job
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Five Star History!
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Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. American Rebels explores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing them -rebels versus loyalists - as they pursued commonly held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitch's new audiobook is a fresh history of our revolution that makes listeners look more closely at Massachusetts.
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I loved this book!
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The Virginia Dynasty
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Captivating
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
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The unlikely man at the roiling center of this intrigue was Robert Bunch, an American-born Englishman who had maneuvered his way to the position of British consul in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew to loathe slavery and the righteousness of its practitioners. Bunch used his unique perch and boundless ambition to become a key player, sending reams of dispatches to the home government and eventually becoming the Crown's best secret source on the Confederacy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a spy novel
- By Michael Battle on 06-21-16
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"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals.
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Looking at the dark side
- By Stanley on 08-02-06
By: Stephen Kinzer
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History of Hawaii
- A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Saffir
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Just how did the ancient Hawaiians sail thousands of miles of open ocean without modern methods, without getting lost, and somehow finding new islands? How did such a rich culture even come to exist on perhaps the most isolated archipelago in the world? And is the nickname of a “beach island paradise” an accurate description of the various kinds of beautiful, intriguing, and sometimes even dangerous topographies and natural phenomena that make up Hawai'i? Learn the true answers to all these questions and much more in this audiobook of the history of Hawai'i.
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Informative
- By R. Darryl Burke on 05-17-24
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Ghost Dancer
- A Howard Moon Deer Mystery, Book 1
- By: Robert Westbrook
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Once a land of Pueblo dwellers, the town of San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, is prime ski country. PI Howard Moon Deer and ex-cop Jack Wilder are headed there to meet their first client - a former US senator and the ski slope's owner. Instead, they find his body - and a murder case to solve.
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Good grief!
- By P. Levell-Ireland on 04-15-20
By: Robert Westbrook
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Hawaiian Mythology
- By: Martha Warren Beckwith
- Narrated by: Sarah Kempton
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In this now classic text, Martha Beckwith skillfully navigated an expansive collection of books, articles, and manuscripts to compile the definitive collection of mythological narratives of the native Hawaiian peoples. In addition to its importance for Hawaiian folklore and ethnology proper, Beckwith situates these stories within their broader regional context, offering comparisons to the traditions of Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa and other island nations.
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Readers accent and awkward pronunciation
- By brian on 02-29-24
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-17-22
New to Hawaii History
Didn’t really know much of anything about Hawaiian history prior to purchasing this book. Bought it to prep for a move to HI.
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- Ilene
- 07-20-24
Very informative
Very informative and interesting title about the history of Hawaii. Lots of details and kept me captivated; highly recommend!
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- Pat De Leon
- 02-11-24
The accuracy ,and the narrator was very well spoken.
I have read a lot of books on Hawaiian History, I learned more of the detail on events.
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- Eric Kasum
- 06-28-23
WOW! Best history of Halloween
I have read dozens of history books of Hawaii. This is by far the most detailed and comprehensive. Gavin Daws can be a bit grumpy and negative and critical and cynical, but he is equally grumpy and negative and critical about all sides of any historic event. Very insightful, but his assessment of the Hawaiian kings and queens is
painful to listen to sometimes. I feel this book is very accurate and much deeper and more insightful and most of what is written about Hawaii, but at times, it is cruel and hard to listen to. while insightful, is unerringly mean spirited in his assessment of every event, and every person involved.
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- Sharman
- 06-12-22
Truly wonderful history and storytelling.
My usual habit when traveling is to download an audiobook history of my destination, listen to a few early chapters in stolen hours before I travel, and then abandon the recording once I’m on the ground. With this long, lucid history, beautifully written and narrated, I couldn’t do that. I listened to all the rest of the book after I got back. Couldn’t set it aside and can’t recommend it highly enough.
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- NNK
- 12-03-22
Fascinating treatment of a tropical paradise
Great whirlwind tour of Hawaiian history from Captain Cook to statehood.
I was also happy to hear that the narrator knew how to pronounce Hawaiian
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- PrincetonWill
- 06-01-24
Interesting listen from a 1960s western perspective
Very interesting listen but wonder how the story would be told from an indigenous perspective in the 21st century
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