Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imperial Children and Empire Formation in the Nineteenth Century

1. Birthing Empire: Economies of Childrearing and the Establishment of American Colonialism in Hawai‘i

2. Playing with Fire: White Childhood and Environmental Legacies in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i

3. Schooling Power: Teaching Anglo–Civic Duty in the Hawaiian Islands, 1841–53

4. Cannibals in America: U.S. Acculturation and the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century White Immigrants from the Hawaiian Islands

5. Crossing the Pali: White Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and the Racial Divide in Hawai‘i, 1820–98

Conclusion: White Hawaiians before the World