Pacific Confluence recasts the story of the US annexation of Hawaiʻi as a larger global story about competing sovereignties and the precarious grounds on which the US imperial project unfolded. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, it expands our imagination for the possibilities of decolonization beyond the nation-state form."—Simeon Man, author of Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific "Pacific Confluence contextualizes events in the continental US with those in Hawaiʻi, as well as Japan and Portugal. Christen Sasaki strikes a great balance between stories of top-level leaders and everyday people. Strongly recommend."—JoAnna Poblete, author of Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa