Matthew Kester

Remembering Iosepa

History, Place, and Religion in the American West

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Remembering Iosepa connects the story of Iosepa, a nineteenth-century community of Native Hawaiian migrants to the Salt Lake Valley, with the vibrant and growing community of Pacific Islanders in the Great Basin today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780199844913
• ISBN-10: 0199844917
• Artikelnr.: 53540105

Autorenporträt

Matthew Kester is a historian of Hawaii and the American West who teaches history and cultural studies at Brigham Young University Hawaii.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Connections
* Chapter 1: "The Pacific World"
* Chapter 2: The Hawaiian Mission - Lana'i, La'ie, and the Gathering
* Chapter 3: Early Native Hawaiian Migration to the Salt Lake Valley
* Chapter 4: Iosepa: Creating a Native Hawaiian Community in Skull
Valley, Utah
* Chapter 5: "As a testament to the faith of these ancestors of ours":
Iosepa in Public Memory
* Epilogue