It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Colonizing Hawai'i by Sally Engle Merry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and...
Colonizing Hawai'i by Sally Engle Merry is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.
This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Colonizing Hawai'i aloud.
Colonizing Hawai'i is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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