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Praise for
Nation Within
“The best single book on annexation.”
—
The Nation
“This book raises important and still unresolved issues about the
annexation of Hawai‘i by the United States, explaining that the U.S.
Senate would not approve the proposed treaty of annexation, that
virtually all Native Hawaiians opposed annexation, and that the
ultimate procedure used — a joint resolution passed by a simple ma-
jority of both chambers of Congress — was controversial at the time
and was questioned by constitutional scholars in the decades that
followed.
Nation Within
is much livelier than the usual history book,
but also much more detailed, carefully researched, and thoughtful
than most journalism.”
— Jon M. Van Dyke, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of
Hawai‘i, author of
Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai‘i?
“No one has taken the time to explicitly search out the relationships
between and among Americans who stole our independence with as
much tenaciousness and perspicacity as
Nation Within.
Even better
is [Tom Coffman’s] exemplary analysis of how the Japanese threat to
the Islands was essentially created by confused and greed-inspired
policies in the republic and outright deception at the U.S. State
Department level. . . . But what I found most valuable about this
work was his portrayal of the republic as an opportunistic masquer-
ade of democratic ideals that swindled an entire nation of its inheri-
tance. In no other history that I’ve seen is the cynical and manipula-
tive nature of annexation so clearly displayed. His ironic recounting
of how voting under the republic was to be constructed in such a
way as to adopt all of the finest traditions of the Jim Crow South tells
us all we need to know about the nature of the government that sur-
rendered that nation of Hawai‘i to the United States. . . . [Coffman’s]
analysis of Lili’uokalani’s leadership is sensitive and perceptive. . . .
To this date I have not seen a more believable analysis of the queen’s
leadership, nor a more compelling analysis of the failure of President
Cleveland’s leadership in the end.”
— Jon Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio, author of
Dismembering Lahui:
A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887,
Professor of Hawaiian
Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, from
The Hawaiian
Journal of History
“Written with power and clarity,
Nation Within
narrates a history of
dispossession but also of complicity and resistance. It correctly situ-
ates Hawai‘i’s annexation within the global context of U.S. imperial-
ism; it insightfully points out that the nation was never completely
extinguished because Hawai‘i continues to stir within the hearts of
the Hawaiian people.”
— Gary Y. Okihiro, author of
Island World: A History of Hawai‘i
and the United States
“As a historian, Tom [Coffman] has done a tremendous job in reveal-
ing the events and circumstances that led to the illegal overthrow of
the Hawaiian Kingdom government in 1893. More important, how-
ever, he unveils how the queen and Hawaiian subjects were politi-
cally and legally astute and were able to organize themselves, in the
aftermath of the overthrow, into a formidable political force that pre-
vented the annexation of the country by treaty. While they succeeded
in preventing the U.S. Senate from ratifying two attempts to annex
the country by treaty, they were unable to prevent the U.S. Congress
from unilaterally enacting a joint resolution of annexation (in the
heat of the Spanish-American War) that served as the basis to ille-
gally seize and occupy the nation of Hawai‘i for military purposes —
an occupation that is now over a century long.”
— Keanu Sai, political scientist
“A far-reaching treasure hunt for long-buried facts, revealing for the
first time the full array of events and shifting international forces
that led to the overthrow and annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
 . . . [N]ot to be missed.”
— Herb Kawainui Kane, artist/historian, author of
Ancient Hawaii
“A page-turner — and an eye-opener.”
—
Honolulu Weekly
“Nation
Within
is the most original and best researched account I
know on the U.S. annexation of Hawaii — and the Hawaiians’ oppo-
sition, then and now, to that annexation. The story is compelling for
many reasons, not least the Hawaiians’ trust that the American dem-
ocratic process would protect their independence and their lands.”
— Walter LaFeber, Cornell University, author of
The New Empire:
An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898
“All Americans who wish to understand how and why the United
States annexed Hawai‘i in 1898 should read this book. Tom Coffman
has forever dispelled the commonly held belief that annexation was a
benign and inevitable process of self-determination. Readers of
Nation
Within
also will come to understand why Native Hawaiians today seek
justice and reconciliation from an American government that usurped
and destroyed their national sovereignty a century ago.”
— Edward P. Crapol, Professor of History, College of William
and Mary
“Nation
Within
explores those ‘strange five years’ from 1893–1898 dur­
ing which a cabal of ‘missionary boys’ hijacked a sovereign nation,
deposed its monarch, prostituted the words ‘republic’ and ‘democ-
racy’ as badly as any Third World Communist dictator ever has, and
handed over an unwilling native people to the care and keeping of
the breast­beating, muscle­flexing expansionist United States. (And if
you think I overwrite, then I challenge you to read the book.) . . . weep,
grow angry . . .”
— Dan Boylan, Professor of History, University of Hawaii,
MidWeek

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