{"product_id":"unsustainable-empire-1","title":"Unsustainable Empire","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable Empire\u003c\/i\u003e Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai‘i was undeserving of statehood because it was a largely non-white territory. Yet Native Hawaiian opposition to statehood has been all but forgotten. Saranillio tracks these disparate stories by marshaling a variety of unexpected genres and archives: exhibits at world's fairs, political cartoons, propaganda films, a multimillion-dollar hoax on Hawai‘i’s tourism industry, water struggles, and stories of hauntings, among others. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. With clarity and persuasive force about historically and ethically complex issues, \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable Empire\u003c\/i\u003e provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai‘i’s admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dean Itsuji Saranillio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615119565180,"sku":"9781478000839","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781478000839_5c0ba10f-fe39-4cce-bacc-88eec589c8ea.jpg?v=1725881807","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/unsustainable-empire-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}