New Providence: A Changing Cityscape

By Renata Von Tscharner

Book Overview

From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leading archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu. Volume I shows the surprising effects of the encounter with the imperial forces of commerce and Christianitythe distinctive ways the Hawaiian people culturally organized the experience, from the structure of the kingdom to the daily life of ordinary people. Volume II examines the material record of changes in local social organization, economy and production, population, and domestic settlement arrangements.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152005404
• ISBN13: 9780152005405
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

The Coolest City Book Ever!!

I'm in 5th. grade and I'm reading this book right now and it's really cool. The pictures are so realistic and colorful. It's about a fictional city with buildings kind of from other places. It starts at 1910 and shows the peacful city with a lush green park and it's people-friendly, it's just after the Civil War and everyone's at peace. There's still cobblestone streets too! Then in 1935, it's fall time right after The Depression. It shows teeny-tiny homeless people and buildings being knocked down. Next in 1955, it's winter time and I think it's the most beautiful picture of them all. There's snow on the ground and lights decorating the buildings. Moving right along there's 1975, which was the "hippie" years, and all the once beautiful places have spray painted words on them. Then in 1988, everything is dark out (at night of course), and everything is going back to normal. Last but not least there's 1992, wich is like our world today. It makes you stop and think about the book actually. This is a must have!