A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise of the early...

The short history of humans in Hawai'i -- Voyaging and settlement -- The rise of competing Hawaiian states -- Guns, germs, and sandalwood -- Globalization and the emergence of a mature natural state -- Treaties, powerful elites, and the overthrow -- Colonial political economy: Hawai'i as a U.S....