The Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol. 38, 2004
Author | : Hawaiian Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9780945048138 |
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Author | : Hawaiian Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9780945048138 |
Author | : James Griffiths |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1786999668 |
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
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Author | : John Demos |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0679781129 |
Award-winning historian John Demos tells the astonishing and moving story of a unique missionary project, which probes the very roots of American identity. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the United States looked outward to the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers devised a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and "civiization." Its core element was a special school for "heathen youth" drawn from all parts of the earth, and, especially, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similiar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women public resolve and fundamental ideals were put to a severe test.
Author | : Hawaiian Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780681086937 |
Author | : Gary Y Okihiro |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520261674 |
"This quirky, brilliant book gives the reader the thrill of cultural history done well. Okihiro undertakes a conventional topic in a jarring way, avoiding the assumption of set boundaries of nations and human societies."—Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America "This beautifully written book integrates the history of Hawai'i into that of the U.S. better than any other I have ever read." —Patricia Seed, author of American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches
Author | : Clif Stratton |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520285670 |
"Education for Empire examines how American public schools created and placed children on multiple and uneven paths to "good citizenship." These paths offered varying kinds of subordination and degrees of exclusion closely tied to race, national origin, and US imperial ambitions. Public school administrators, teachers, and textbook authors grappled with how to promote and share in the potential benefits of commercial and territorial expansion, and in both territories and states, how to apply colonial forms of governance to the young populations they professed to prepare for varying future citizenships. The book brings together subjects in American history usually treated separately--in particular the formation and expansion of public schools and empire building both at home and abroad. Temporally framed by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion and 1924 National Origins Acts, two pivotal immigration laws deeply entangled in and telling of US quests for empire, case studies in California, Hawaii, Georgia, New York, the Southwest, and Puerto Rico reveal that marginalized people contested, resisted, and blazed alternative paths to citizenship, in effect destabilizing the boundaries that white nationalists, including many public school officials, in the United States and other self-described "white men's countries" worked so hard to create and maintain"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : BOOKLINES HAWAII LTD |
Publisher | : Hawaiian Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780945048176 |
Author | : Larry Prochner |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0774858907 |
In the early nineteenth century, governments introduced kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that origin-ated in England and Europe, but what happened when they were exported to the colonies? This book unwinds the tangled threads of this history, from early infant schools in England to three Commonwealth countries Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where systems of educating young children were transplanted but adapted to suit local ideas, politics, and populations. This unique, comparative approach to the history of early childhood education provides fresh insight into how to reconcile educational theory and practice in an increasingly global world.
Author | : Selina Lai-Henderson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804794758 |
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.