An exploration of competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting the hundreds of white missionary children born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands during the nineteenth century, and the impact these children had on U.S. foreign policy of the era.
 

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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

Joy Schulz is a member of the history faculty at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha.