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The Peopling of Hawaii

Politics & Social Sciences

Nordyke, Eleanor C.

Nordyke, Elenore C.

Sociology

University of Hawaii Press

With compelling simplicity, The Peopling of Hawaii tells the story of the islands' growth. Hawaii's first immigrants, the Polynesians, lived in harmony with nature, but their distinctive stone-age culture declined rapidly following the arrival of Captain Cook, and the advent of Western culture. Sailors from trading ships, then missionaries, tradesmen, and contract workers flocked to the islands to work and stayed on to make Hawaii their home. Photographs of the past and present supplement the histories of various ethnic groups and the changes this influx of people has wrought on the island environment. Once self-sustaining, the islands have become almost completely dependent on outside sources for food and energy. Many writers have paid little attention to future problems inherent in unrestrained growth. But Nordyke graphically projects current population trends and possible alternatives through to the year 2070. Her book translates demographic statistics into a clear message, presenting a challenge to all concerned with the problems of population growth in a fragile environment of finite resources.

The peopling of Hawaii

History

Americas

Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii

Hawaii's growth and its outlook for the future are viewed in light of recent demographic data and current events and trends in the completely revised and updated edition of The Peopling of Hawaii.
With simplicity and candor, author Eleanor Nordyke describes how Hawaii was settled--first by Polynesians and later by successive waves of new arrivals from nations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. Nordyke presents a concise analysis of current demographic data, accompanied by discussions of each major ethnic group.
Well illustrated with photos and graphics, along with a complete appendix of statistical tables, the second edition of The Peopling of Hawaii presents the fascinating history of an island state's population, and underlines Hawaii's greatest challenge--how to share the finite resources of a fragile island environment.
Foreword by Robert C. Schmitt

The Peopling of Hawaii: Second Edition

Robert A. Nordyke's life exemplifies the pattern of a person who followed the precepts of "I'm third." A gentle, unassuming, gracious, kind, intelligent, humble, generous, and thoughtful family man, he was a deep thinker, a lover of poetry and literature, a poineer in nuclear medicine, a nationally and internationally recognized teacher, an innovator in medical practice, a clinician, and a researcher. In 1992 Bob was urged by family and friends to write about his own experiences as a boy growing up in the small California town of Woodland in Sacramento Valley during the post World War I period and the depression years, extending from 1919 to 1950. Over the next five years he sat at his computer and recorded some short episodes in his life that he had used as bedtime stories for his children and grandchildren. this book is a compilation of those adventures. It is not intended as a diary that reports day-to-day and month-to-month activities; instead, it offers scenes of true-life experiences of an American boy growing up in an historical period of the first half of the twentieth century.

I'm Third: An American Boy Of Depression Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Univ of Hawaii Pr

Featuring Stamps Related to Cook's Voyages Pacific Images, in this, its second edition, presents the earliest illustrations and descriptions of Pacific peoples and cultures as they were observed and recorded on Captain James Cook’s third and final voyage (1776–1780) with HMS Resolution and Discovery. Reproduced are all 61 engraved plates from artist John Webber’s drawings, plus three maps published in the rare folio Atlas that accompanies the British government’s official journal, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784). Text describing each illustration is derived from the meticulous notebooks and detailed journals kept by Cook and his officers.The second edition of Pacific Images includes selected colorful stamps from the Ron V. Meads Captain Cook stamp collection as a fitting complement to the beauty of the engraved plates. Scenes, people, and objects associated with Cook’s eighteenth-century scientific voyages have been featured on 96 stamps from 40 countries.

Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook's Third Voyage

Jr., James A. Mattison

Eleanor C. Nordyke

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