Honor Killing
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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

About the Author

David E. Stannard received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai'i. A Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow and a widely recognized authority on Hawai'ian history and culture, he has written five previous books, including American Holocaust- The Conquest of the New World.

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"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

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