{"product_id":"unsustainable-empire-dean-itsuji-saranillio-9781478000624","title":"Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood","description":"In \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable Empire\u003c\/i\u003e Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai'i was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely non-white territory. Yet Native Hawaiian opposition to statehood has been all but forgotten. Saranillio tracks these disparate stories by marshaling a variety of unexpected genres and archives: exhibits at world's fairs, political cartoons, propaganda films, a multimillion-dollar hoax on Hawai'i's tourism industry, water struggles, and stories of hauntings, among others. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. With clarity and persuasive force about historically and ethically complex issues, \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable Empire\u003c\/i\u003e provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai'i's admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Itsuji Saranillio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478000627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478000624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/21\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Dean Itsuji Saranillio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44065881391359,"sku":"9781478000624","price":107.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44894f8c-484c-4d8c-8370-0a3ba8afba06.jpg?v=1685404047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unsustainable-empire-dean-itsuji-saranillio-9781478000624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}