Introduction
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This introductory chapter sets out the author's explanation of why he chose Molokai to study. That Molokai's marginality, relative to its larger neighbors and to the larger outside world, gives it a focused explanatory power, like a small lens that refracts and reflects back bigger processes and wider histories with which it has intersected, thereby illuminating them in invaluable ways. Because it is more isolated and simplified in comparison to larger, more central places, certain processes are more visible, their outlines less blurred by complexity. To understand the history of this marginal place is to go a long way toward understanding the history of Hawaii, the United States, the Pacific, and the world.
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2011 ◽
Vol 51
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pp. 218-228
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pp. 141-150
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Vol 27
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pp. 119-141
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