Beyond Hawai'i

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in  na ‘aina ‘e  (foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California.  Beyond Hawai‘i  tells the stories of these forgotten indigenous workers and how their labor shaped the Pacific World, the glob