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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818279203321

Autore

Coffman Tom

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8223-7398-X

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

996.9/03

Soggetti

Hawaii - Politics and government - 1893-1900

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Hawaii Annexation to the United States

Hawaii Politics and government 1893-1900

Hawaii Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Hawaii

United States Territorial expansion History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Hawaiin protests -- The treaty of annexation -- The queen in winter -- The Hawaiian petition -- Cuba and the Philippines -- Raising Old Glory.

Sommario/riassunto

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.