Nation within : the history of the American occupation of Hawai'i
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Nation within : the history of the American occupation of Hawai'i
Duke University Press, 2016
Rev. ed
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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