4.28 avg rating — 142 ratings

"An anthropological and archaeological history of Hawaii and the Polynesian people who settled it that does a good job of laying out the structure and history of the Hawaiian kingdom."

4.14 avg rating — 441 ratings

"A fascinating exploration of how Hawaii's indigenous mythology and cosmology were put to use in Hawaiian-language newspapers as a covert way of maintaining resistance to colonialism before the overthrow of Hawaii's own government and forced annexation by the US."

4.21 avg rating — 1,023 ratings

"A sometimes frothy sports biography that almost despite itself encompasses the changes that overtook Hawaii during the 1970s and 1980s as Hawaiians took further steps to reclaim their own cultural heritage."

3.46 avg rating — 228 ratings

"The flip side of mai tais and overpriced cabanas; the author is descended from one of the plantation families that drove the destruction of the kingdom of Hawaii, but even so, her life was as much defined by the hospitality industry and the consequences of colonialism as anything."

3.64 avg rating — 15,502 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings