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About Holger Droessler

Holger Droessler is an Assistant Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of empire and labor in the Pacific.

NBN Episodes hosted by Holger:

Military History June 17, 2023

War at the Margins

Indigenous Experiences in World War II

Lin Poyer

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Eighty years on, Lin Poyer's book War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II (U Hawaii Press, 2022) offers a global and comparative view of the impact of …
General History August 12, 2021

Tautai

Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Taʻisi O.F. Nelson

Patricia O'Brien

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In Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), O’Brien chronicles the life of a man described as the “archenemy” of New Zealand …
General History July 21, 2021

Everything Ancient Was Once New

Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki

Emalani Case

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In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is …
General History June 11, 2021

Hawaiian by Birth

Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U. S. Colonialism in the Pacific

Joy Schulz

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Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American …
General History October 6, 2020

Bound By War

How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century

Christopher Capozzola

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Ever since American troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the U.S. armed forces. In Bound By War: How the United States and …
General History August 18, 2020

Beyond Hawai‘i

Native Labor in the Pacific World

Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

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In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left …
General History July 28, 2020

Balancing the Tides

Marine Practices in American Samoa

JoAnna Poblete

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In Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa (University of Hawai’i Press, 2020), JoAnna Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government …