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A Power in the World (Perspectives on the Global Past),Used
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Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawaii was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial role in the entire Pacific region and left an important legacy throughout Oceania. As the first nonWestern state to gain full recognition as a coequal of the Western powers, yet at the same time grounded in indigenous tradition and identity, the Hawaiian Kingdom occupied a unique position in the late nineteenthcentury world order. From this position, Hawaiis leaders were able to promote the building of independent states based on their countrys model throughout the Pacific, envisioning the region to become politically unified. Such a panOceanian polity would be able to withstand foreign colonialism and become, in the words of one of the ideas pioneers, a Power in the World.After being developed over three decades among both native and nonnative intellectuals close to the Hawaiian court, King Kalakauas government started implementing this vision in 1887 by concluding a treaty of confederation with Samoa, a first step toward a larger Hawaiianled panOceanian federation. Political unrest and Western imperialist interference in both Hawaii and Samoa prevented the project from advancing further at the time, and a long interlude of colonialism and occupation has obscured its legacy for over a century. Nonetheless it remains an inspiring historical precedent for movements toward greater political and economic integration in the Pacific Islands region today.Lorenz Gonschor examines two intertwined historical processes: The development of a Hawaiibased panOceanian policy and underlying ideology, which in turn provided the rationale for the second process, the spread of the Hawaiian Kingdoms constitutional model to other Pacific archipelagos. He argues that the legacy of this visionary policy is today reemerging in the form of two interconnected movementsnamely a growing movement in Hawaii to reclaim its legacy as Oceanias historically leading nationstate on one hand, and an increasingly assertive Oceanian regionalism emanating mainly from Fiji and other postcolonial states in the Southwestern Pacific on the other. As a historical reference for both, nineteenthcentury Hawaiian policy serves as an inspiration and guideline for envisioning decolonial futures for the Pacific region.
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