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Captive paradise : a history of Hawaii
Title:
Captive paradise : a history of Hawaii
Author:
Haley, James L., author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
xxxvii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The kings and queens of Hawaiʻi -- Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands (Owhyhee) -- Antecedent : Captain Cook -- The loneliness of a God -- "Disobey, and die" -- The suicide of Kapu -- Abhorring a vacuum -- The new morality -- Becoming little Americans -- A sweet taste -- Captains and cannons -- A nation among nations -- The Great Mahele -- The Anglican attraction -- Useful marriages -- Mountains of sugar -- Taffy triumphant -- A voice like distant thunder -- Queen at last -- The coup -- The inscrutable Mr. Blount -- Countercoup and annexation -- Angry luʻaus.
ISBN:
9780312600655
Format :
Book