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Book Reviews

Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
By James Revell Carr
Western Historical Quarterly. Winter 2015


Missionaries in Hawai‘i: the Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883.
By Clifford Putney
The New England Quarterly.  March 2011


Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska.
By Stuart Banner
The Historian.
72:1. 243-244. Spring 2010


Honolulu: the First Century.
By Gavan Daws
Hawaiian Journal of History.
42. 2008


Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest 1787-1898.
By Jean Barman and Bruce McIntyre Watson
Pacific Historical Review.
76:4. 2007


North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy.
William R. Shenk (editor)
American Historical Review.
111:1. 2006


Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii 1850-80.
By John E. Van Sant
Journal of American Ethnic History.
20:4. 2001


The Shipmans of East Hawaii.
By Emmett Cahill
Hawaiian Journal of History.
31. 1997


Kona Echo: A Biography of Dr. Harvey Saburo Hayashi.
By Jiro Nakano, M.D.
Hawaiian Journal of History.
25. 1991


Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii.
By Patricia Grimshaw
Hawaiian Journal of History. 24. 1990


The Bishop’s Progress: A Historical Ethnography of Catholic Missionary Experiences on the Sepik Frontier.
By Mary Taylor Huber
American Anthropologist.
90:4. 1988