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"The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of... Full description
Table of 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.