Laughable Empire : The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1, Hardcover by Thompson, Todd Nathan, ISBN 0271095040, ISBN-13 9780271095042, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them”–