Colonizing Hawai'I: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History)

by SallyEngleMerry (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $48.46

  How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands.