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Nation within : the history of the American occupation of Hawai'i / Tom Coffman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Revised editionDescription: xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822361978
  • 0822361973
Subject(s):
Contents:
A false spring -- Retrieving history -- Coping with great powers -- Roosevelt's frontier -- The queen's dilemma -- American expansionism -- A two-layered conspiracy -- Trade-off for Pearl Harbor -- An American coup -- Hawaiian resistance -- Battle on the Potomac -- A republic in name -- The Hawaiian revolt -- Conjuring the yellow peril -- The doorway to imperialism -- Hawaiian protests -- The treaty of annexation -- The queen in winter -- The Hawaiian petition -- Cuba and the Philippines -- Raising Old Glory.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 996.903 C675 Available 33111009139821
Total holds: 0

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A false spring -- Retrieving history -- Coping with great powers -- Roosevelt's frontier -- The queen's dilemma -- American expansionism -- A two-layered conspiracy -- Trade-off for Pearl Harbor -- An American coup -- Hawaiian resistance -- Battle on the Potomac -- A republic in name -- The Hawaiian revolt -- Conjuring the yellow peril -- The doorway to imperialism -- Hawaiian protests -- The treaty of annexation -- The queen in winter -- The Hawaiian petition -- Cuba and the Philippines -- Raising Old Glory.

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