When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘iJoy Schulz Hardcover, 166 pp. Throughout the nineteenth century British and American imperialists advanced into the Pacific, with catastrophic effects for Polynesian peoples and cultures. In both Tahiti and Hawaii, women rulers attempted to mitigate the effects of these encounters, utilizing their power amid the destabilizing influence of the English and Americans. However, as the century progressed, foreign diseases devastated the Tahitian and

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