Island Queens and Mission Wives (eBook)

How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai'i's Pacific World

Jennifer Thigpen (Autor)

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2014
180 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1430-4 (ISBN)

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In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women: missionary wives and high-ranking Hawaiian women. Examining the enduring and personal exchange between these groups, Thigpen argues that women's relationships became vital to building and maintaining the diplomatic and political alliances that ultimately shaped the islands' political future. Male missionaries' early attempts to Christianize the Hawaiian people were based on racial and gender ideologies brought with them from the mainland, and they did not comprehend the authority of Hawaiian chiefly women in social, political, cultural, and religious matters. It was not until missionary wives and powerful Hawaiian women developed relationships shaped by Hawaiian values and traditions--which situated Americans as guests of their beneficent hosts--that missionaries successfully introduced Christian religious and cultural values.Incisively written and meticulously researched, Thigpen's book sheds new light on American and Hawaiian women's relationships, illustrating how they ultimately provided a foundation for American power in the Pacific and hastened the colonization of the Hawaiian nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions • American foreign mission movement • American foreign mission movement—19th century • American foreign mission movement—19th century • American missionary wives • Foreign Presence in Hawai‘i 18th century • Foreign Presence in Hawai‘i 19th century • Foreign Presence in Hawai‘i 18th century • Foreign Presence in Hawai‘i 19th century • Gender and conversion • Gender and diplomacy • Gender and empire • Gender and mission work • gift giving • Hawaiian History 18th century • Hawaiian History 19th century • Hawaiian-Missionary interaction—19th century • Hawaiian-Missionary interaction—19th century • Hawaiian-missionary relations • Ka‘ahumanu • Ka‘ahumanu • Kapi‘olani • Kapi‘olani • KeōpÅ«olani • Keōpūolani • kuhina nui • Missions—Hawai‘i • Missions—Hawai‘i • Pacific history • Sandwich Islands Mission • US expansion—19th century • US expansion—19th century • US expansion—Hawai‘i • US expansion—Hawai‘i • US Foreign Relations—19th century • US Foreign Relations—19th century • Western clothing—19th century • Western clothing—19th century • Women and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions • Women’s role in the foreign mission movement • Women in missionary work—United States—19th century • Women in missionary work—United States—19th century • Women in the American mission • Women missionaries • Women’s role in the foreign mission movement
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1430-8 / 1469614308
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1430-4 / 9781469614304