I just ran across a fascinating item on auction at eBay. It's a book from 1899 called Our Islands and Their People, published in the USA, about Hawai'i, the Philippines, and Cuba. As the introduction says:
Considering how the politics of US imperialism and Hawaiian sovereignty have played out over the last century, it's interesting to see what it all looked like to people at the time.
If you're interested in this link, even if you don't intend to bid on the book, save the page while the auction is still active so you can grab the auction text (with full Table of Contents) and the scanned pages.
"Embracing perfect photographic and descriptive representations of the people and the islands lately acquired from Spain, including Hawaii and the Philippines; also their material resources and productions, homes of the people, their customs and general appearance, with many hundred views of landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills and mountains, so complete as to practically transfer the islands and their people to the pictured page."
If you're interested in this link, even if you don't intend to bid on the book, save the page while the auction is still active so you can grab the auction text (with full Table of Contents) and the scanned pages.
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