The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration by David A. Chang

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and LanguagesWinner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge AwardWinner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book AwardWinner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers AwardFinalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeWhat if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they “discovered”? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian people) explored the outside world and generated their own understandings of it in