Island Queens and Mission Wives - Jennifer Thigpen

Island Queens and Mission Wives

How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2014 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1429-8 (ISBN)
55,95 inkl. MwSt
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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 Christianise 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 colonisation of the Hawaiian nation.

Jennifer Thigpen is assistant professor of history at Washington State University, USA.

Reihe/Serie Gender and American Culture
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4696-1429-4 / 1469614294
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-1429-8 / 9781469614298
Zustand Neuware
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