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With a prodigious feat of historical reconstruction, Klieger has shaped, for the first time, a cogent and compelling biography of Kauikeaouli, the beloved Kamehameha III, son of Kamehameha the Warrior and the sacred Maui chiefess Keopuolani. The author documents the story of how, in the second quarter of the 19th century, the young king had the genius of good-nature - and the shrewdness - to defend the kanaka maoli, his nation, from Calvinist theocrats, from the Great Powers of Europe, and from schemers and filibusters of the California Gold Rush--Curt Sanborn

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Europe-based anthropologist Sir Paul Christiaan Klieger has been gathering information on the life of Kamehameha III for over twenty years. Educated at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, he led the team that rediscovered the king's royal palace complex at Moku'ula, Lahaina, Maui. He was for many years an anthropological curator at Bishop Museum in Honolulu, the states cultural and natural history museum. He has also served in that capacity at the California Academy of Sciences and The California Museum. He has taught anthropology at the University of Hawaii, Chaminade University of Honolulu, and the University of Pittsburg. Topically, Dr. Klieger is most interested in indigenous nationalisms, and his work has taken him to remote settings as varied as the Himalayas of Myanmar and Tibet to the halls of the Vatican.

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