Seth Archer on “The Wasting Hand: Hawai‘i, 1840–55” | November 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018
4:30 PM - 6 PM
CSRPC, 5733 S University Ave
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Join us for a talk on the history of Hawai’i through the lens of Utah State University historian Seth Archer’s new book. Published in May 2018, “Sharks Upon the Land” examines the interplay between health, religion, and politics in the Hawaiian Islands between the 1770s and 1850s.
“CRES Talks” is a speaker series presented by the Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies program designed to bring scholars to campus whose work is relevant to the program coursework being taught. Presented by by CSRPC.
Seth Archer is a cultural historian of North America and the Pacific Islands. His teaching areas include early America and nineteenth-century U.S., Native America, American West to 1900, environmental history, and the history of medicine. From 2015 to 2017 he was the Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. His first book is Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawaiʻi, 1778–1855 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).