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Honor Killing by David E. Stannard
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May 02, 2006 | ISBN 9780143036630

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Praise

“Combines superb courtroom drama with a sweeping view of a lush world fed by unfettered power and clamorous racism.” —New York Daily News

“First-rate history that works as a true-crime thriller and as a social and political history.” —Bryan Burrough, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate and author of Public Enemies

Table Of Contents

Introduction

1. Nothing but Trouble
2. Paradise of the Pacific
3. Something Awful Has Happened
4. Thalia’s Story
5. Hell’s Half Acre
6. Arrest
7. Rush to Judgement
8. Making News
9. Alibis and Accusations
10. Taking Sides
11. Grace and Tommie
12. On Trial
13. For the Defense
14. Lust-Sodden Beasts
15. The Shame of Honolulu
16. A Death in the Islands
17. Penthouse for a Prison
18. Tears of Heaven
19. Grand Jury
20. Attorney for the Damned
21. A Copper Minor’s Son
22. Territory of Hawaii v. Fortescue et al.
23. Dementia Americana
24. Everybody Knows I Love You!
25. Where Is Kahahawai?
26. The Unwritten Law
27. Case Closed
28. Prelude to Revolution

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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