Patrick Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drury University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9671-3479 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sand Rush
Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surfboard and the writing of surf history
Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surfboard (1935) has long been regarded as a seminal text in surf culture, the first book to present the history of the sport from ancient Hawaiian legends to the evolution of surfing and surfboards through the first three decades of the twentieth century. A close reading of the book’s content, however – including the invented romance of Nani and Moloa (this latter character based on Blake himself) – reveals Blake’s appropria…
The Hawaii Promotion Committee and the Appropriation of Surfing
The advent of digital newspapers is providing critical historical information for subjects like surfing that have traditionally had so few primary sources available to researchers. A review of newspapers from the early twentieth century reveals important new evidence that the Hawaii Promotion Committee (HPC) helped support the growth of surfing by coordinating a transpacific marketing campaign to highlight the sport for the sake of boosting touri…
The endurance of surfing in 19th-Century Hawai'i
Conflicting reports of surfing's near-demise in 19th-century Hawai'i compel us to re-evaluate historical sources of information and look to recently-available newspaper databases to understand how surfing fared during a century of monumental change. I argue that while surfing remained suppressed by influential haole (non-Hawaiians, especially those of European origin) around the capital of Honolulu, areas outside of the capital, both on O'ahu and…
Montaigne's Literary Patrons
Montaigne presents De l'amitie as a eulogy that vies with classical models of friendship in both content and literary form. Citing examples of ancient friendships only to dismiss their inadequacy, Montaigne proclaims his friendship with Etienne de la Boetie far superior to those recorded by Aristotle, Cicero, and Lucian; by association, the literary form that describes this «parfaicte amitie» also surpasses ancient treatises: the ordered logical …
The endurance of surfing in 19th-Century Hawai'i
Conflicting reports of surfing's near-demise in 19th-century Hawai'i compel us to re-evaluate historical sources of information and look to recently-available newspaper databases to understand how surfing fared during a century of monumental change. I argue that while surfing remained suppressed by influential haole (non-Hawaiians, especially those of European origin) around the capital of Honolulu, areas outside of the capital, both on O'ahu and…
Montaigne's Literary Patrons
Montaigne presents De l'amitie as a eulogy that vies with classical models of friendship in both content and literary form. Citing examples of ancient friendships only to dismiss their inadequacy, Montaigne proclaims his friendship with Etienne de la Boetie far superior to those recorded by Aristotle, Cicero, and Lucian; by association, the literary form that describes this «parfaicte amitie» also surpasses ancient treatises: the ordered logical …
The endurance of surfing in 19th-Century Hawai'i
Conflicting reports of surfing's near-demise in 19th-century Hawai'i compel us to re-evaluate historical sources of information and look to recently-available newspaper databases to understand how surfing fared during a century of monumental change. I argue that while surfing remained suppressed by influential haole (non-Hawaiians, especially those of European origin) around the capital of Honolulu, areas outside of the capital, both on O'ahu and…
The Hawaii Promotion Committee and the Appropriation of Surfing
The advent of digital newspapers is providing critical historical information for subjects like surfing that have traditionally had so few primary sources available to researchers. A review of newspapers from the early twentieth century reveals important new evidence that the Hawaii Promotion Committee (HPC) helped support the growth of surfing by coordinating a transpacific marketing campaign to highlight the sport for the sake of boosting touri…
Sand Rush
Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surfboard and the writing of surf history
Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surfboard (1935) has long been regarded as a seminal text in surf culture, the first book to present the history of the sport from ancient Hawaiian legends to the evolution of surfing and surfboards through the first three decades of the twentieth century. A close reading of the book’s content, however – including the invented romance of Nani and Moloa (this latter character based on Blake himself) – reveals Blake’s appropria…
Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Appropriation (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Newspaper (2 works) · Political science (2 works)