Nation Within
The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
Published on 22. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-8223-6197-8 (ISBN)
Description
In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili'uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Coffman describes native Hawaiian political activism, the queen's visits to Washington, D.C., to lobby for independence, and her imprisonment, along with hundreds of others, after their aborted armed insurrection. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai'i's sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States' growing empire.
Reviews / Votes
"Nation Within explores those 'strange five years' from 1893-1898 during which a cabal of 'missionary boys' hijacked a sovereign nation, deposed its monarch, prostituted the words 'republic' and 'democracy' as badly as any Third World Communist dictator ever has, and handed over an unwilling native people to the care and keeping of the breast-beating, muscle-flexing expansionist United States. (And if you think I overwrite, then I challenge you to read the book.) . . . weep, grow angry . . . " - Dan Boylan, Professor of History, University of Hawaii, (MidWeek) "[A] page-turner-and an eye-opener." (Honolulu Weekly) "Tom Coffman has gracefully constructed a new vision of Hawaiian history, broader perhaps than any produced in the last 100 years. . . . A stunning, transoceanic story." - Kehaulani Lum (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) "The best single book on annexation." (The Nation)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
68 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-6197-8 (9780822361978)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
07/2016
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€208.99
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Person
Tom Coffman is an award-winning independent writer and filmmaker. He is the author of several books including The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawai'i, and the producer of many documentaries including O Hawai'i: From Settlement to Kingdom and Nation Within.
Content
Foreword ix
Introduction xiii
1. A False Spring 1
2. Retrieving History 7
3. Coping with Great Powers 23
4. Roosevelt's Frontier 33
5. The Queen's Dilemma 39
6. American Expanisionism 53
7. A Two-Layered Conspiracy 69
8. Trade-off for Pearl Harbor 91
9. An American Coup 109
10. Hawaiian Resistance 135
11. Battle on the Potomac 141
12. A Republic in Name 149
13. The Hawaiian Revolt 167
14. Conjuring the Yellow Peril 183
15. The Doorway to Imperialism 205
16. Hawaiian Protests 235
17. The Treay of Annexation 245
18. The Queen in Winter 263
19. The Hawaiian Petition 273
20. Cuba and the Philippines 289
21. Raising Old Glory 315
Notes and Acknowledgments 325
Endnotes 329
Index 339
Introduction xiii
1. A False Spring 1
2. Retrieving History 7
3. Coping with Great Powers 23
4. Roosevelt's Frontier 33
5. The Queen's Dilemma 39
6. American Expanisionism 53
7. A Two-Layered Conspiracy 69
8. Trade-off for Pearl Harbor 91
9. An American Coup 109
10. Hawaiian Resistance 135
11. Battle on the Potomac 141
12. A Republic in Name 149
13. The Hawaiian Revolt 167
14. Conjuring the Yellow Peril 183
15. The Doorway to Imperialism 205
16. Hawaiian Protests 235
17. The Treay of Annexation 245
18. The Queen in Winter 263
19. The Hawaiian Petition 273
20. Cuba and the Philippines 289
21. Raising Old Glory 315
Notes and Acknowledgments 325
Endnotes 329
Index 339