{"product_id":"hawaii-sumner-la-croix-9780226592091","title":"Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change","description":"Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understanding of the social, political, and economic changes that have unfolded since has been limited until recently by how little we knew about the first five centuries of settlement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Building on new archaeological and historical research, Sumner La Croix assembles here the economic history of Hawai'i from the first Polynesian settlements in 1200 through US colonization, the formation of statehood, and to the present day. He shows how the political and economic institutions that emerged and evolved in Hawai'i during its three centuries of global isolation allowed an economically and culturally rich society to emerge, flourish, and ultimately survive annexation and colonization by the United States. The story of a small, open economy struggling to adapt its institutions to changes in the global economy, \u003ci\u003eHawai'i\u003c\/i\u003e offers broadly instructive conclusions about economic evolution and development, political institutions, and native Hawaiian rights. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sumner La Croix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022659209X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226592091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Sumner La Croix","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483432366335,"sku":"9780226592091","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bba7a9c6-fd16-448d-9352-95b5284503ec.jpg?v=1778038721","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hawaii-sumner-la-croix-9780226592091","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}