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Nation Within

The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i

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Nation Within

By: Tom Coffman
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
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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.

©1998, 2009, 2016 Tom Coffman (P)2022 Tantor
Americas Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Oceania State & Local United States Royalty Theodore Roosevelt Imperialism Latin American Franklin D Roosevelt

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