Writing Westward Podcast Episode 009
David A. Chang
The World and All Things Upon It:
Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
A conversation with David A. Chang about his award-winning book The World and All Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2016. This book won the Albert J. Beveridge Award for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present from from the American Historical Association, the John C. Ewers Award for best book in North American Indian Ethnohistory from the Western History Association, the Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and was a Finalist for the John Hope Franklin Award for Most Outstanding Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association.
David A. Chang is a Distinguished McKnight Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is also author of the award-winning The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010.
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- Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.
- Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
- Episodes are recorded via Skype, Zoom, or in person and amateurishly engineered by Rensink.
- To submit a book to be considered for a podcast episode, email writingwestwardpodcast@byu.edu.