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Person

Paul D'Arcy

Book

Transforming Hawai‘i: balancing coercion and consent in Eighteenth-Century Kānaka Maoli statecraft

This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact.