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Non-Fiction

Jim Lane

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1. I've read "Unfamiliar Fishes", her account of the annexation of Hawaii by the U. S.

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 01:29 AM

Dec 2011

I knew we'd done all kinds of bad stuff en route from the East Coast to the West Coast but I'd never really thought about Hawaii. The book is a case study of how imperialism works.

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