{"product_id":"hawaiian-by-birth-joy-schulz-9780803285897","title":"Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific","description":"2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In\u003ci\u003e Hawaiian by Birth\u003c\/i\u003e Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These children of white missionaries would eventually alienate themselves from the Hawaiian monarchy and indigenous population by securing disproportionate economic and political power. Their childhoods--complicated by both Hawaiian and American influences--led to significant political and international ramifications once the children reached adulthood. Almost none chose to follow their parents into the missionary profession, and many rejected the Christian faith. Almost all supported the annexation of Hawai'i despite their parents' hope that the islands would remain independent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether the missionary children moved to the U.S. mainland, stayed in the islands, or traveled the world, they took with them a sense of racial privilege and cultural superiority. Schulz adds children's voices to the historical record with this first comprehensive study of the white children born in the Hawaiian Islands between 1820 and 1850 and their path toward political revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Schulz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803285892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803285897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018","brand":"Joy Schulz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120246354175,"sku":"9780803285897","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54c9b1d1-f53c-4dee-9416-a0c6cb326f5f.jpg?v=1687413293","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hawaiian-by-birth-joy-schulz-9780803285897","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}