ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, a rich historiography on nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi has argued that too often the islands have been understood as marginal, and their people as passive in the face of American colonialism. This literature recovers the voices of the colonized, stressing the crucial ways in which Hawaiian history is not American history, but rather that of an independent people whose politics and culture were eroded by imperialism. This article offers an overview of this scholarship, asking how it might help scholars of U.S. history understand Hawaiʻi as offering a different perspective for viewing the United States, from the outside in.

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夏威夷历史和美国历史：融合还是分离？

摘要 在过去的三十年里，关于 19 世纪夏威夷的丰富历史文献认为，这些岛屿经常被理解为边缘，而他们的人民在面对美国殖民主义时是被动的。这些文学作品恢复了被殖民者的声音，强调夏威夷历史不是美国历史，而是政治和文化被帝国主义侵蚀的独立人民的历史。本文概述了这项奖学金，询问它如何帮助美国历史学者理解夏威夷，为从外到内观察美国提供了不同的视角。