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Discusses Hawaii's leprosy policies in the late nineteenth-century which reflect and embody the mobilization of racial discourses to disempower Hawaiians. Missionary assessments of causes for disease and depopulation among Hawaiians; Isolation of lepers to Kalaupapa peninsula; Expansion of white commercial interests; Overthrow of the Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893.

Explores the transformation from Hawaiian political and cultural economy into Western-capitalist forms, using place names to elucidate the change in geographic meaning that accompanied this shift. Analysis of the role of place names within colonial discourse in terms of the imposition of logos; `Anti-conquest' notion that retains Hawaiian names.