Liliuokalani: Hawaii's Beloved Queen and Storyteller

sadiesadiesade: Easy read

United States on Oct 09, 2023

Alan R. Crews: What was stolen from the Hawaiian people was ultimately the ability to be the best of Christians while maintaining a truly exceptional culture.

United States on Aug 12, 2023

Samuel L: Interesting take on the annexation of Hawaii. These perspectives are important to have a more well-rounded understanding of how certain things came to be.

United States on Jun 07, 2023

Pauline: Fantastic read, so interesting

United Kingdom on Feb 23, 2023

Paulo MeloPaulo Melo: Gostei muito para saber história do Hawai. Muito interessante aqueles tempos.
Não gostei do formato do texto. Muito denso.

Spain on Aug 27, 2022

eve: History Talks. Interesting and sad read of the super powers that steal control.

United Kingdom on May 05, 2021

Amazon Customer: This is a non fiction book about history of Hawaii. It is written by Queen Liliuokalani.
Sometimes difficult to read as English is not the writers first language. Many run on sentences etc. But a good read. Hans R.

Canada on Feb 26, 2020

nevthedev: Poorly written, but useful to get the first hand account

Canada on May 23, 2019

RDD: Part autobiography, part political history, Queen Lili‘uokalani’s "Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani" tells her story and that of Hawai‘i from her youth through the time of her publication in 1898. The overall impression the reader receives is of a monarchy very similar to those throughout Europe, especially when Queen Lili‘uokalani details her journey to England for Queen Victoria’s jubilee. While these personal stories and travelogues add context, the bulk of the narrative deals with the Hawaiian monarchy and the manner in which American planters subverted it.
Writing of Kalakaua and the slanders that followed him, Queen Lili‘uokalani states, “The conclusion cannot be avoided, that if my brother had indeed sought his own pleasure rather than the good of all residents under our flag, his family would be in their hereditary rights to this day. By his liberality to those of American birth he inaugurated the treaty of reciprocity; … and he thus devoted the earlier part of his reign to the aggrandizement of the very persons, who, as soon as they had become rich and powerful, forgot his generosity, and plotted a subversion of his authority, and an...

United States on Aug 16, 2017

eledavf Vivian: 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...

United States on Jun 17, 2014