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Author Merry, Sally Engle, 1944-2020

Title Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  996.9 M573C    Check Shelf
Description xii, 371 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm.
Series Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-363) and index.
Contents Encounters in a contact zone: New England missionaries, lawyers, and the appropriation of Ango-American law, 1820-1852 -- Local practices of policing and judging in hilo, Hawai'i.
Subject Hawaiians -- Government relations.
Hawaiians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Hawaiians -- Politics and government.
Customary law -- Hawaii.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Hawaii.
Hawaii -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN 0691009317 cloth alkaline paper
9780691009315 cloth alkaline paper
0691009325 pb. alkaline paper
9780691009322 pb. alkaline paper
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