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"Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an "Americanized" Pacific from the 1840s to the 1940s"--

Settler colonialism --- National characteristics, Hawaiian. --- Hawaii --- California --- United States --- Relations --- Territorial expansion. --- History. --- Civilization.

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"How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century? It began with mainland hula and musical performances in the late 19th century, rose dramatically as millions shipped to Hawaii during the Pacific War, then made big leap with the advent of low-cost air travel. By the end of the 1950s, mainlanders were hosting tiki parties, listening to exotica music, lazing on rattan furniture in Hawaiian shirts and, of course, surfing. The author describes how this cultural conquest came about and the people and events that led to it"--

Popular culture --- Art, Polynesian --- Cultural appropriation --- National characteristics, Hawaiian. --- History --- Influence. --- History 20th century. --- Hawaii --- Hawaii --- United States --- Hawaii --- Hawaii --- United States --- In popular culture. --- Civilization --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs --- Relations --- Relations