“A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai’i” by Patrick Vinton Kirch is a good case-study in this kind of thing. It traces the development of Hawai’ian civilization from small family communities in Asia to early states with divine kings, to a constitutional monarchy.
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I find that sagas that follow a family over generations can show the evolution of culture and history. Some I enjoyed:
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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“A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai’i” by Patrick Vinton Kirch is a good case-study in this kind of thing. It traces the development of Hawai’ian civilization from small family communities in Asia to early states with divine kings, to a constitutional monarchy.
I find that sagas that follow a family over generations can show the evolution of culture and history. Some I enjoyed:
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers