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Here Daniel J
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A Laughable Empire Andrew Schlegelmilch Here Daniel JIn the nineteenth century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i. e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth century American humor about Hawai'i and the Pacific world. Todd Nathan Thompson collects and
