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Mowee : an informal history of the Hawaiian island / by Cummins E. Speakman, Jr.
- Title
- Mowee : an informal history of the Hawaiian island / by Cummins E. Speakman, Jr.
- Author
- Speakman, Cummins Elliott, 1912-
- Publication
- Salem, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Salem, 1978.
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| Text | Request in advance | DU628.M3 S67 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 234 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Informal history of the Island of Maui from origins to 1977.
- Subject
- Maui (Hawaii) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 201-204.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The beginnings: land and people -- The hundred years war and the dynasty of Ke Kau Like -- The fateful contact: 1778-1779 -- The final battles: 1780-1794 -- French and British on Maui -- 1786-1796 -- Women's lib-Hawaiian style: 1819-1832 -- Chiefs, whalers, and missionaries: the heyday of Lahaina: 1820-1860 -- Sugar and water -- From many lands: new peoples -- Maui remembered: 1900-1950 -- Maui 1958-1978 -- A note on sources.
- ISBN
- 0875770568
- LCCN
- ^^^78073629^
- OCLC
- 4903261
- SCSB-11778695
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library