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.
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.
Author(s): Tom Coffman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 368
Tags: American Imperialism; United States of America
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Chapter One: A False Spring......Page 22
Chapter Two: Retrieving History......Page 28
Chapter Three: Coping with Great Powers......Page 44
Chapter Four: Roosevelt’s Frontier......Page 54
Chapter Five: The Queen’s Dilemma......Page 60
Chapter Six: American Expansionism......Page 74
Chapter Seven: A Two-Layered Conspiracy......Page 90
Chapter Eight: Trade-off for Pearl Harbor......Page 112
Chapter Nine: An American Coup......Page 130
Chapter Ten: Hawaiian Resistance......Page 156
Chapter Eleven: Battle on the Potomac......Page 162
Chapter Twelve: A Republic in Name......Page 170
Chapter Thirteen: The Hawaiian Revolt......Page 188
Chapter Fourteen: Conjuring the Yellow Peril......Page 204
Chapter Fifteen: The Doorway to Imperialism......Page 226
Chapter Sixteen: Hawaiin Protests......Page 256
Chapter Seventeen: The Treaty of Annexation......Page 266
Chapter Eighteen: The Queen in Winter......Page 284
Chapter Nineteen: The Hawaiian Petition......Page 294
Chapter Twenty: Cuba and the Philippines......Page 310
Chapter Twenty-one: Raising Old Glory......Page 336
Notes and Acknowledgements......Page 346
Endnotes......Page 350
Index......Page 360
