Pacific pioneers
Subtitle: Japanese journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80
By: John E. Van Sant ; foreword by Roger Daniels.
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- History -- 19th century; Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- History -- 19th century; Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Immigrants -- Hawaii -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Relations -- Japan; Japan -- Relations -- United States
Description: "Pacific Pioneers profiles the first Japanese who resided in the United States or the Kingdom of Hawaii for a substantial period of time and the Westerners who influenced their experiences.".

"Pacific Pioneers presents detailed biographical sketches of Japanese such as Joseph Heco, Niijima Jo, and the converts to the Brotherhood of the New Life and introduces the American benefactors, such as William Griffis, David Murray, and Thomas Lake Harris, who built relationships with their foreign visitors.

Van Sant also examines the uneasy relations between Japanese laborers and sugar cane plantation magnates in Hawaii during this period and the shortlived Wakamatsu colony of Japanese tea and silk producers in California."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-185) and index.