Captive Paradise : A History of Hawaii

from Shrike58

Mostly concerned with the intricacies of Hawaiian royal politics from the rise of Kamehameha to the fall of Queen Liliuokalani's government, Haley traces the path of how the Anglo-Saxon planter class came to predominate and regards it as pretty much inevitable that Hawaii was going to wind up bei...

from kaitanya64

Very readable and yet sufficiently detailed. I was aware that Hawaii lost its independence o the US against the will of the Hawaiin royalty and e majority of native Hawaiins, but Haley does a good job of retracing the history of Hawaii from the first contacts with Europeans through annexation by ...