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Book SynopsisNation Within is the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. Highlighting the native Hawaiians' resistance during that five year span, Tom Coffman shows why occupying Hawaiʻi was crucial to American imperial ambitions.
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Nation Within explores those 'strange five years' from 1893–1898 during which a cabal of 'missionary boys' hijacked a sovereign nation, deposed its monarch, prostituted the words 'republic' and 'democracy' as badly as any Third World Communist dictator ever has, and handed over an unwilling native people to the care and keeping of the breast-beating, muscle-flexing expansionist United States. (And if you think I overwrite, then I challenge you to read the book.) . . . weep, grow angry . . . " -- Dan Boylan, Professor of History, University of Hawaii, * MidWeek *
"[A] page-turner—and an eye-opener." * Honolulu Weekly *
"Tom Coffman has gracefully constructed a new vision of Hawaiian history, broader perhaps than any produced in the last 100 years. . . . A stunning, transoceanic story." -- Kehaulani Lum * Honolulu Star-Bulletin *
"The best single book on annexation." * The Nation *
Table of ContentsForeword ix
Introduction xiii
1. A False Spring 1
2. Retrieving History 7
3. Coping with Great Powers 23
4. Roosevelt's Frontier 33
5. The Queen's Dilemma 39
6. American Expanisionism 53
7. A Two-Layered Conspiracy 69
8. Trade-off for Pearl Harbor 91
9. An American Coup 109
10. Hawaiian Resistance 135
11. Battle on the Potomac 141
12. A Republic in Name 149
13. The Hawaiian Revolt 167
14. Conjuring the Yellow Peril 183
15. The Doorway to Imperialism 205
16. Hawaiian Protests 235
17. The Treay of Annexation 245
18. The Queen in Winter 263
19. The Hawaiian Petition 273
20. Cuba and the Philippines 289
21. Raising Old Glory 315
Notes and Acknowledgments 325
Endnotes 329
Index 339
