Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood

Abstract

Hawai‘i Hawai‘i’s statehood transformative moment for U.S. antiracism and civil rights. Unsustainable Empire persuasively that the campaign for statehood sought to remedy intensifying economic crises through new imperial ventures and capitalist expansion. Saranillio elabo-rates, imperialist ventures in Hawai‘i were not the result of a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but rather a result of a weakening U.S. nation whose mode of production—capitalism—was increasingly unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism” forward” a litany with