Print version: La Croix, Sumner J., 1954- Hawai’i : eight hundred years of political and economic change. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 390 pages Markets and governments in economic history. ISBN 9780226592091
Includes bibliographical references and index
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. territory -- Homes for Hawaiians -- Statehood and the transition to an open-access order -- The rise and fall of residential leasehold tenure in Hawai’i -- Land reform and housing prices -- The long reach of history.