Hawaii Story by Hawaii Queen eBook Liliuokalani
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In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States.
Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.
Written to explain to the world the injustice of her situation and to reclaim the sovereignty which she had lost, the Chicago Daily Tribune claimed that “no scholar or lawyer could have state[d] it more effectively.” But despite her persuasive prose Hawaii never again regained its independence or its monarchy.
Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen is a fascinating history of one of the United States of America’s smallest but most unique states as it was going through significant change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the kingdom of Hawaii. She ascended the throne in January of 1891, upon the death of her brother, King David Kalakaua. For years after her overthrow, the Queen sought redress in the Congress and courts of the United States, but her efforts failed. Her autobiographical history Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen is the only work by a Hawaiian monarch and provides insight into her fight to regain her throne and life on Hawaii during the late-nineteenth century.
Hawaii Story by Hawaii Queen eBook Liliuokalani
I loved this book. Every phrase is elegant and precisely used. This style of composition, once the hallmark of the best writing, will be appreciated by anyone who relishes the English language.This remarkable Queen recounts the victimization of Hawaii and how she and her forbears tried to preserve the islands as a free nation.
Hawaii’s loss of nationhood began with the arrival of New England Protestant missionaries, self-righteous and eager to proselytize but before long ready to exploit and dispossess. They and their descendants found chickens ready for plucking: a fertile tropical Island of unsuspecting natives who could be ensnared in crooked politics and cheated in land deals.
Gradually Hawaii was transformed. Instead of preserving its self-sustaining rural lifestyle, it became the prey of scavengers, the modern barons. Pre-eminent among them was the Dole family which turned the age-old system of small, personal farms into acres of pineapple fields worked by thousands of Chinese “coolies”.
In time, this new, wealthy class, using threats and schemes, succeeded in taking control of the government. The Queen’s predecessors yielded of necessity, unable to prevent the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of native inhabitants. Only a tenth of the populace could now vote.
Becoming Queen on the death of her brother, Liliuokalani faced alone the implacable empire builders.
Powerful interests were working to join Hawaii to the United States. Admiral Mahan, with his worship of sea power, saw that these magnificent islands offered more than plantations: their central position in the Pacific promised an ideal harbor for provisioning ships, dominating shipping lanes and threatening the Asiatic rim. In the end, the Queen’s enemies resorted to brute force and it was finally the marines who trampled on the rights of the Hawaiian people.
The Queen was a truly great lady, highly educated, a remarkable writer, a gifted composer (of that heartbreaking hymn to Hawaii, Aloha Oe). Besides a brilliant mind, she possessed a powerful sense of justice and enormous compassion for her Hawaiian subjects. Her patriotism was the pure kind, not that vicious distortion so diligently nurtured in the conquering nation, that chauvinism which features contempt for other cultures as its hallmark. She repeatedly speaks kindly and admiringly of the United States in all respects but this one: that a nation blessed with endless horizons and all the bountiful gifts of nature should covet yet more land, even islands so far from its shores.
In addition, being always able to appreciate personal kindness, she speaks warmly and gratefully of President Grover Cleveland. And she remembers President McKinley as a consummate gentleman toward a woman, a fallen Queen and a supplicant for her nation.
Her bitterest scorn is reserved for John Leavitt Stevens, the United States Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii, whose slander turned the government at Washington and the American public against the Royal Family. John Stevens was a figure of Dickensian evil and duplicity, a liar, traducer, schemer, truly the symbol of everything despicable about American colonial policy. He was a fanatic of the sort any decent person would loathe. Such men are a curse to any nation; how criminal that he should have been foisted on the unfortunate Hawaiians. But of course, like all ambassadors, he was carefully chosen for his dishonesty and unscrupulousness. It is astonishing that there is never a scarcity of ruthless functionaries to be inflicted on foreign lands.
John Stevens could be counted on to tell his fellow conspirators in Congress what they wanted to hear. With this type of scoundrel a coup d’etat can be guaranteed, and it was.
Besides forcing the Queen to abdicate and imprisoning her to stifle her voice, her enemies did not hesitate to lie. She was accused of threatening to cut off the heads of her country’s persecutors, a calumny taught as late as the1940’s and perhaps later -- in volumes called history books.
Occasionally chickens do come home to roost and they came for John Stevens, whose daughter drowned while returning from a trip to one of the islands to gather signatures for another of her father’s crooked schemes. This loss darkened the rest of his life.
For the truth about this crime against an island people, I strongly recommend Queen Liliuokalani’s history of colonial aggression and domination ending in the tawdry drama of marines marching ashore and surrounding the government buildings of a sovereign nation.
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Hawaii Story by Hawaii Queen eBook Liliuokalani Reviews
I had forgotten that Hawaii was once a sovereign nation. It was heartwarming how the people had so much love and caring for one another. The Queen was an intelligent and lovely person. But..it sickens me how the big companies there and the U.S. dethroned the family, had her brother the King killed and basically raped and stole the islands. They were a peaceful people until foreigners used aggression to steal this nation.
Amazing, insightful, unyielding. I cried several times when reading her account of the Hawaiian Kingdom's fortune and misfortune. I've always known the history of the overthrow and occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, but this is a great book for those who want to know more details or even need a place to begin. She also discusses Hawaiian family, education, and social practices prior to the overthrow. She supplements with appendices which include her plea letters to presidents and ministers, text of the "treaty of cession", and other statements.
I finish this book and feel horrified to be an American. I'm not naive and know so much about our history. We aren't saints and yes, we've been imperialistic. But I didn't know a thing about Hawaiian history and did not have a clue that we swindled, chief, and bullied that nation away from its rightful rulers. I say "we" because Americans.....missionaries, business owners and investors and even people who lived amongst the islanders for years and even generations did this. No respect for the culture, missile and history of this island nation. Now I need to learn what happened to the queen until her end days. She was amazing!
This true story told by Hawaii's deposed queen was an eye opener to me and made me feel indignant that such a gracious woman showing hospitality to all and reigning over her people with Christian restraint and care should be treated in such a cruel and dismissive way by those whom she had trusted. I would have liked to know more of the result of the appeal with which the book ends. A very worthwhile read!
I found this book extremely interesting and well written. The story of how the Hawaiian islands became part of the United States of America should be an embarrassment to all Americans. Such as we treated the Native American Indians so we did to the Native Hawaiians.
This woman was a remarkable "Regal" lady. She wrote with such capability, her sweet, yet humble spirit poured out in every page. Having spent a substantial number of years living in Hawaii, I am very familiar with the stories of the power plays which resulted in the takeover of the Islands by the United States. There is little doubt that this was a very black period in our American History. She spoke with such sadness as her way of life, and the very way of life of her people and country were wrested from them. Hawaii is a part of my emotional DNA -- I love the people and the strong, sweet and kind way they share their lives with all who visit. It is tragic that there are so very few real Hawaiians left today (2017) -- yet the spirit of the islands lives on. Read her story, sing her songs, and feel the spirit of both this remarkable lady, and her incredible life!
Found out ASIN B01M6TP7CS shorts you appendixes D thru G [The Text of the Treaty - How the Cession of the Islands is to be Accomplished , Genealogy of Liliuokalani on Her Mother's Side, Genealogy of Liliuokalani on Her Father's (Kapaakea) side, and Genealogy of Kamehameha - Three Sisters] as well as all of the photos found present as in other versions like ASIN B01MQL41TZ. Bottom line - an Ok read so long as you don't mind some missing material but otherwise I'd tell you to download ASIN B01MQL41TZ instead especially if it is priced the same...
I loved this book. Every phrase is elegant and precisely used. This style of composition, once the hallmark of the best writing, will be appreciated by anyone who relishes the English language.
This remarkable Queen recounts the victimization of Hawaii and how she and her forbears tried to preserve the islands as a free nation.
Hawaii’s loss of nationhood began with the arrival of New England Protestant missionaries, self-righteous and eager to proselytize but before long ready to exploit and dispossess. They and their descendants found chickens ready for plucking a fertile tropical Island of unsuspecting natives who could be ensnared in crooked politics and cheated in land deals.
Gradually Hawaii was transformed. Instead of preserving its self-sustaining rural lifestyle, it became the prey of scavengers, the modern barons. Pre-eminent among them was the Dole family which turned the age-old system of small, personal farms into acres of pineapple fields worked by thousands of Chinese “coolies”.
In time, this new, wealthy class, using threats and schemes, succeeded in taking control of the government. The Queen’s predecessors yielded of necessity, unable to prevent the disenfranchisement of the vast majority of native inhabitants. Only a tenth of the populace could now vote.
Becoming Queen on the death of her brother, Liliuokalani faced alone the implacable empire builders.
Powerful interests were working to join Hawaii to the United States. Admiral Mahan, with his worship of sea power, saw that these magnificent islands offered more than plantations their central position in the Pacific promised an ideal harbor for provisioning ships, dominating shipping lanes and threatening the Asiatic rim. In the end, the Queen’s enemies resorted to brute force and it was finally the marines who trampled on the rights of the Hawaiian people.
The Queen was a truly great lady, highly educated, a remarkable writer, a gifted composer (of that heartbreaking hymn to Hawaii, Aloha Oe). Besides a brilliant mind, she possessed a powerful sense of justice and enormous compassion for her Hawaiian subjects. Her patriotism was the pure kind, not that vicious distortion so diligently nurtured in the conquering nation, that chauvinism which features contempt for other cultures as its hallmark. She repeatedly speaks kindly and admiringly of the United States in all respects but this one that a nation blessed with endless horizons and all the bountiful gifts of nature should covet yet more land, even islands so far from its shores.
In addition, being always able to appreciate personal kindness, she speaks warmly and gratefully of President Grover Cleveland. And she remembers President McKinley as a consummate gentleman toward a woman, a fallen Queen and a supplicant for her nation.
Her bitterest scorn is reserved for John Leavitt Stevens, the United States Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii, whose slander turned the government at Washington and the American public against the Royal Family. John Stevens was a figure of Dickensian evil and duplicity, a liar, traducer, schemer, truly the symbol of everything despicable about American colonial policy. He was a fanatic of the sort any decent person would loathe. Such men are a curse to any nation; how criminal that he should have been foisted on the unfortunate Hawaiians. But of course, like all ambassadors, he was carefully chosen for his dishonesty and unscrupulousness. It is astonishing that there is never a scarcity of ruthless functionaries to be inflicted on foreign lands.
John Stevens could be counted on to tell his fellow conspirators in Congress what they wanted to hear. With this type of scoundrel a coup d’etat can be guaranteed, and it was.
Besides forcing the Queen to abdicate and imprisoning her to stifle her voice, her enemies did not hesitate to lie. She was accused of threatening to cut off the heads of her country’s persecutors, a calumny taught as late as the1940’s and perhaps later -- in volumes called history books.
Occasionally chickens do come home to roost and they came for John Stevens, whose daughter drowned while returning from a trip to one of the islands to gather signatures for another of her father’s crooked schemes. This loss darkened the rest of his life.
For the truth about this crime against an island people, I strongly recommend Queen Liliuokalani’s history of colonial aggression and domination ending in the tawdry drama of marines marching ashore and surrounding the government buildings of a sovereign nation.
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