Sugar, Sororities, and the Oceanic Silk Road: Pacific History As Global History in the American Classroom

In this paper global industrialization, labor movements, and immigration legislation will be discussed through the viewpoint of 19^th-century, foreign-exchange students to the United States from the Hawaiian Kingdom.  This presentation will highlight the way modern immigration issues are rooted in 19^th-century American industrialization and colonialism, as well as the ways immigrants continue to influence U.S. economic history and foreign-exchange students continue to affect world history.