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main port town of Honolulu became an urban slum
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The tide was high. I stayed near the edge and dunked my head all the way to the bottom, grabbed fistfuls of pebbles and tried to bring them all the way back up. But when I got to the surface, my hands were practically empty. One time, I wound up with a small, empty burgado seashell that looked like a shiny, worn moon.
Andrea Abreu • Dogs of Summer
Their romance with the Yankee dollar,
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
After the beginning of the raids in the eighth century, foreign loot was sometimes repurposed as jewellery—book mounts from ecclesiastical volumes turned into brooches, English sword fittings similarly remade, coins pierced and hung on necklaces. In Norway there is an Irish or Scottish reliquary, almost certainly plundered from a monastery, that se
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expectation of island hospitality.