Lost kingdom : Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure

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Lost kingdom : Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure

Title remainder

Hawaii's last queen, the sugar kings and America's first imperial adventure

Statement of responsibility

Julia Flynn Siler

Creator

• Siler, Julia Flynn, 1960-

Subject

• Hawaii -- History -- Overthrow of the Monarchy, 1893
• Hawaii -- History -- To 1893
• Hawaii -- Relations -- United States
• Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Biographies
• Queens -- Hawaii -- Biography
• United States -- Relations -- Hawaii
• Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917 -- Political and social views

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, "Lost Hawaii" brings to life the ensuing clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom's rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawai'i
• Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with little contact from the western world. In 1778, their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook. Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Hawaii brings to life the ensuing clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom's rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawai'i. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands. Lucrative sugar plantations gradually subsumed the majority of the land, owned almost exclusively by white planters, dubbed the "Sugar Kings." Hawai'i became a prize in the contest between America, Britain, and France, each seeking to expand their military and commercial influence in the Pacific. The monarchy had become a figurehead, victim to manipulation from the wealthy sugar plantation owners. Lili'uokalani was determined to enact a constitution to reinstate the monarchy's power but was outmaneuvered by the U.S. The annexation of Hawai'i had begun, ushering in a new century of American imperialism

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

996.902

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DU627.18

LC item number

.S55 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography