Interracial Marriage in Hawaii, A Study of the Mutually Conditioned Process of Acculturation and Amalgamation

Montclair, New Jersey: Patterson Smith, 1969. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. Illustrated with 11 plates/portraits. A scholarly study of the character and social relationships among descendants of native Polynesians, European peoples who came to the islands, a few thousand persons of African decent, as well as Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, etc. Original brown cloth. From the publisher: "The eight inhabited islands of the colorful Hawaiian archipelago, where strangely diverse races have mingled freely for nearly a hundred and fifty years, serve in this book to reveal the processes by which separate races and peoples combine and interact in human society.". Reprint of the 1937 Macmillian edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. xvii, 353pp.