This course offers an intensive, field-based introduction to the history of the Hawaiian archipelago – one of the key sites of Pacific and global history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Spending half our time in Honolulu and half on Hawai‘i Island, we shall study multiple aspects of the archipelago’s history, including: pre-contact history; the emergence of Hawai‘i as a key entrepot for global trade at the turn of the nineteenth century; the relationship between New England missionaries and Native Hawaiian law; the sugar plantation economy and accom-panying waves of immigration; the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and the post-annexation relationship with the United States; the emergence of Hawai‘i as a global tourist destination; and the so called «renaissance» of the Hawaiian language in public education in the last few decades. The course will be taught by leading scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hawaiian history. We shall also have sessions at key museums and historical sites on the islands, including the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.