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University of Chicago Press. 389 pages. Almost new hardback with a dust jacket. Hawai'i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change (Markets and Governments in Economic History) . As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2019.

Hardback. New. 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. 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… Leer más

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2019. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 389 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.