Shoal of Time a History of the Hawaiian

"Daws tells Hawaii's sparkling story well." --New York Times Book Review "[This] history is singularly satisfying... told with style and a nice wit." --Publishers Weekly Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories.

Prologue

xi

Captain Cook 1778--1779

High Islands at Daybreak

1

(7)

Kealakekua Bay

8

(3)

Lono

11

(5)

A Broken Mast

16

(8)

The End of Lono

24

(5)

Kamehameha 1779--1819

Enter Kamehameha

29

(2)

The Arts of War

31

(4)

The Lord of Hawaii

35

(2)

The Way to Nuuanu

37

(4)

Reach and Grasp

41

(3)

The Arts of Peace

44

(5)

Schaffer of Schafferthal

49

(4)

The King Is Dead

53

(8)

Missionaries and Merchants 1820--1839

Go Ye Forth into all the World

61

(4)

The Isles Shall Wait for his Law

65

(6)

Liholiho in London

71

(4)

Foreigners and French Priests

75

(7)

The Troubles of Boki

82

(5)

The Moral Wars

87

(4)

Bird Feathers

91

(3)

Once More the Priests

94

(3)

The Great Awakening

97

(5)

The End of the Holy Community

102

(4)

The Nation 1839--1854

Large and Unfamiliar Fishes

106

(6)

Their Finest Hour

112

(8)

Ladd & Co.

120

(4)

The Great Mahele

124

(4)

Who Is the Despotic Dr. Judd?

128

(4)

Treaties

132

(5)

When the Bough Breaks

137

(10)

Thirteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest

147

(7)

A New Society, A New Economy 1855--1876

The Dance of Life

154

(9)

The Dance of Death

163

(6)

Whales

169

(4)

Sugar

173

(10)

A Warning Voice

183

(7)

Whisky Bill

190

(7)

A Burning Torch

197

(10)

Out in the Noonday Sun 1876--1887

The Philosophy of the Planters

207

(6)

The Conscience of the King

213

(7)

The Shepherd Saint

220

(5)

His Royal Saccharinity

225

(10)

The Empire of the Calabash

235

(5)

A Cloud on the Sun

240

(11)

Aloha OE 1887--1900

Bulwarks of Liberty

251

(4)

Red Shirts

255

(3)

The Torch is Quenched

258

(6)

Liliuokalani

264

(6)

Royalists and Republicans

270

(10)

Farewell to Thee

280

(5)

Manifest Destiny

285

(8)

The Territory 1900--1941

Chiefs and Retainers

293

(9)

The Rising Sun

302

(9)

A Quota of Sweetness and Light

311

(6)

The Honolulu Martyrdom

317

(11)

Ultimate Loyalty

328

(11)

Now We Are All Haoles 1941--1959

Tora, Tora, Tora

339

(5)

War

344

(8)

A Commanding General is Never Wrong

352

(5)

Labor Pains

357

(11)

Unquiet Peace

368

(13)

Fiftieth Star

381

(11)

Epilogue

392

(5)

Acknowledgments

397

(2)

Bibliography

399

(18)

Notes

417

(58)

Index

475

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