Ne Tentes aut Perfice: Early Hawaiian Diplomacy in the Southwestern Pacific and the Creation of Hawai‘i’s First Royal Order

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Lorenz Gonschor is a lecturer at the University of French Polynesia in Tahiti. Previously, he taught at ‘Atenisi University in Tonga, where he was also the associate dean and librarian. He holds an MA in Pacific Islands Studies (2008) and PhD in Political Science (2016), both from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His first book, A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania (2019), focuses on the relations of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i with other Pacific Islands. His research interests include governance, politics, land tenure, international relations, regionalism, and decolonization in Oceania, both historical and contemporary.