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Author : Joseph Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106015114942
Social, cultural, economic, and political issues, as they relate to land use in Hawai'i.
Author : University of Hawaii at Hilo. Dept. of Geography
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780824821258
A large-format atlas includes 250 geographical, topographical, and reference maps; 215 color photographs, charts, and graphs; an introduction to Hawaiian place names; and essays on the state's physical, biological, cultural, and social environment. Simultaneous. UP.
Author : Joseph Morgan
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005111995
Author : Charles Wickliffe Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : OCLC:637044545
Author : University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Dept. of Geography,University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Department of Geography,University of Hawaii at Manoa. Department of Geography,University of Hawaii,R. Warwick Armstrong,James Allen Bier
Publisher : Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : 0824802594
Author : Charles W. Baldwin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0666955867
Excerpt from Geography of the Hawaiian Islands The volcanic fires ceased first on Kauai, and so, as it became greatly eroded and acquired more forms of plant life, it has been called the oldest island of the group; this does not mean, how ever, that it appeared above the surface of the ocean first, or even before Hawaii, the youngest island, which, with its two active volcanoes, is still in the making process, though it has already been built up 8575 feet higher than Kauai. The surface features of the group are characterized by lofty mountains with gentle slopes, which are cut up by many gorges of great depth. The valleys of West Maui and Kauai are among the grandest in the world. The windward or northeast sides terminate in cliffs, which, on Hawaii and Molokai, are several thousand feet high in places. The upper slopes of the moun tains are covered with a dense tropical growth of great beauty, which extends nearly to the sea on the windward side. Situated as they are at the crossroads of the steamer routes across the Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands occupy a position of great commercial and Strategic' importance - and thus well merit the epithet which is applied to them, The Key of the Pacific. Rock. - With the exception of some uplifted coral reefs, and a little sandstone and sedimentary rock, all the rock of the group is volcanic, consisting of basaltic lavas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Alanson Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015031086526
Author : Charles Wickliffe 1869-1954 Baldwin
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362632104
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David A. Chang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452950310
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award Winner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award Winner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers Award Finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they “discovered”? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian people) explored the outside world and generated their own understandings of it in the century after James Cook’s arrival in 1778. Writing with verve, David A. Chang draws on the compelling words of long-ignored Hawaiian-language sources—stories, songs, chants, and political prose—to demonstrate how Native Hawaiian people worked to influence their metaphorical “place in the world.” We meet, for example, Ka?iana, a Hawaiian chief who took an English captain as his lover and, while sailing throughout the Pacific, considered how Chinese, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans might shape relations with Westerners to their own advantage. Chang’s book is unique in examining travel, sexuality, spirituality, print culture, gender, labor, education, and race to shed light on how constructions of global geography became a site through which Hawaiians, as well as their would-be colonizers, perceived and contested imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism. Rarely have historians asked how non-Western people imagined and even forged their own geographies of their colonizers and the broader world. This book takes up that task. It emphasizes, moreover, that there is no better way to understand the process and meaning of global exploration than by looking out from the shores of a place, such as Hawai?i, that was allegedly the object, and not the agent, of exploration.
Author : Gerard Fowke,Nathaniel Bright Emerson,King of Hawaii David Kalakaua,James Jackson Jarves,United States Census Bureau,William Richards Castle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547718925
Hawaii: The Aloha State is an informative reader which provides all the necessary information about USA's youngest state. This book is packed with fascinating stories from Hawaiian history, mythology, tradition and literature. If you plan to visit Hawaii or just want to find out more about this Pacific paradise this book is going to give you all the information you'll ever need. General Information Hawaiian History Archaeological Discoveries in Hawaii Volcanoes of Hawaii Customs and Tradition Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula Kiana: A Tradition of Hawaii Legends and Myths of Hawaii
Author : William Alanson Bryan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230452567
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... up on the tines of a rake. They are much sought by zoologists owing to their primitive chordate characters, but uninformed collectors would place them at once among the worms. If specimens are carefully collected and placed in a jar of sea water and sand, they make interesting exhibits in the schoolroom or laboratory. chapter xxxvii. plants and animals from the coral reef: part two. The Hawaiian reefs abound in representatives of the phylum, i including such odd and diverse animals as the starfish, sea-urchins, brittle-stars and the sea-cucumbers. The curious bleached white skeletons of the sea-urchins, with the beautiful lace-like pattern pierced in fine holes over the biscuit-shaped shell or test, are among the objects picked up with shells and seaweed on the sand beach. They are hardly to be recognized, however, as the remains of the spiny sea-urchin so often stepped on by incautious bathers. They arc the "hedge-hogs" of the sea, since the numerous calcareous plates forming the shell are covered in the several species with variously-shaped spines. These spines serve the ina, as the sea-urchins are called by the natives, as a means of protection, and in certain species they are used to assist in boring the burrows often inhabited by them in the solid rock below low-tide. Sea-urchtns. The common forms are a black species,2 or ina eleele, and a whitish form,3 ina keokeo. They both are very plentiful on the coral reefs about Honolulu and are gathered and eaten by the natives. If one is taken alive from its hiding place beneath the loose stones on the outer edge of the reef and examined, the spines will be found to move on a ball-and-socket joint. The tubercles on the test forming the at
Author : Gary L. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317726524
First published in 1987. The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of explorer and chartmaker Captain James Cook in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to Hawaii produced a rich assortment of charts amid maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of Hawaii during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. A major segment of The Early Mapping of Hawaii it examines the contribution of American missionaries in mapping Hawaii. Mostly produced at the seminary school at Lahainaluna, Maui, these maps introduced geographical education into the Hawaiian school system. Lahainaluna graduate S. P. Kalama produced a landmark map of the islands in 1838, one of the most significant maps in Hawaiian history. Nearly one hundred maps, views, portraits, and illustrations are reproduced here. Included are many charts and harbor plans produced by James Cook, William Bligh, George Vancouver, Otto von Kotzebue, Urey Lisiansky, Jean Francois de la Pérouse, Louis Duperrey, and Charles Wilkes. These charts document the early geography of Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo, and Kailua, as well as many bays and harbors in the islands.
Author : Marie Sanderson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0824814916
The Hawaiian Islands are small in area, but they resemble continents in miniature with climates ranging from tropical rainforest to desert to tundra. Prevailing Trade Winds: Weather and Climate in Hawaii, intended for students of geography, biology, ecology, and hydrology, for visitors interested in the natural phenomena of the places they visit, and for island residents, explains in clear language the many aspects of the climate and weather of Hawaii. Weather is usually defined as the current state of the atmosphere, while climate denotes average weather and includes the variability and frequency of the factors that produce weather. The authors of this volume discuss the factors that control climate; the radiation, energy, and water balances; the impact of climate on human activity; the climate-related meanings of many place names in Hawaii; and the importance of the climate of Hawaii for scientific research. Contributors: Paul Ekern, Tom Giambelluca, Dennis Nullet, Saul Price, Marie Sanderson, and Thomas Schroeder.
Author : William Alanson Bryan
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295946769
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James O. Juvik,Sonia P. Juvik,Thomas R. Paradise
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1573060496
Describes the geography, weather, ecosystems and social geography of the Hawaiian islands.