Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai’i

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.

Author: Tom Coffman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/22/2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780822361978
Language: English