Nation Within

The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i

Auteur: Coffman, Tom
Éditeur: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822361978
eISBN Pdf: 9780822373988
Lieu de publication: Durham , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2016
Mois : Juillet
Pages: 368
Langue: Anglais

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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.