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From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
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The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism and rites of human sacrifice,...
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In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Inspired by the 5-page memoir written by the real Erinia Pavaloff in 1936.
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In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about Alaska and the Alaska Purchase. What natural resources does Alaska provide? Who were Alaska's first people? Why was US Secretary of State William Seward's purchase of Alaska referred to as 'Seward's Folly'? How has time exonerated Seward for what many saw as an unnecessary acquisition for which the US overpaid? The answers to these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics,...
9) Land pacts
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Discusses the three treaties that tripled the land holdings of the United States during the nineteenth century: the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty in 1848, and the Alaska Purchase in 1867.
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