HIUS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hawaiian Renaissance, Insular Cases, Hawaiian Language
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Hius 103 lecture 5 the us pacific empire. Legal, (cid:272)ultural, e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272), politi(cid:272)al (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373)s (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h a(cid:374) i(cid:373)perial (cid:858)(cid:272)ore(cid:859) (cid:374)atio(cid:374) dominates a (cid:858)peripheral(cid:859) (cid:374)atio(cid:374: denial of the right to sovereignty to subjugated peoples, denial of claims of nationhood, do not have rights of citizenship within imperial nation-state. American empire: guano islands act: 1856; americans could occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano, guano used for gunpowder, fertilizer. The significance of 1898 in us imperial history. It was a deliberate act, in response to 2 things: crisis of overproduction, age of empire. Industrial revolution in the us 1870s-1910s signaled triumph of american capitalism: lots of immigrants coming to us to become wage laborers, rise of american capitalist expansion, e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) depressio(cid:374)s (cid:271)la(cid:373)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:862)o(cid:448)erprodu(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) 1890s (cid:862)benevolent assimilation(cid:863) (cid:862)the (cid:373)issio(cid:374) of the u(cid:374)ited states is one of benevolent assimilation, substituting the mild sway of justi(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d right for ar(cid:271)itrar(cid:455) rule(cid:863: mckinley 1898.
