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A History of the Hawaiian Islands
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Narrated by:
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Kaipo Schwab
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By:
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Gavan Daws
About this listen
The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights. By late in the century, two strong American currents were running: one east from the islands, one west from the continent.
Sugar plantations had become Hawai'i's biggest moneymaker. And many of the biggest names in the business were of American blood - the sons of missionaries, devout capitalists.
At the same time, the United States was beginning to envision itself as an imperial naval power in the Pacific. This was the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, and Hawai'i's Pearl Harbor was a strategic key. In 1893, they forced Queen Lili'uokalani to surrender the kingdom to them, and straight away they offered Hawai'i to the United States. The Hawaiians resisted, but they could not hold off the big world.
From warrior culture to constitutional government, to unstable monarchy, to revolution, to provisional government, to republic, to annexation, it had taken barely a hundred years.
Finally, in 1959, Hawaii was admitted to the Union.... Fiftieth star... Aloha State.
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In this now classic text, Martha Beckwith skillfully navigated an expansive collection of books, articles, and manuscripts to compile the definitive collection of mythological narratives of the native Hawaiian peoples. In addition to its importance for Hawaiian folklore and ethnology proper, Beckwith situates these stories within their broader regional context, offering comparisons to the traditions of Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa and other island nations.
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this recordding needs to be scrapped
- By kaiulani damaso on 08-13-24
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The Great Book of Texas: The Crazy History of Texas with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
- A Trivia Nerds Guide to the History of the United States 1
- By: Bill O'Neill
- Narrated by: Derek Newman
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you looking to learn more about Texas? Sure, you’ve heard about the Alamo and JFK’s assassination in history class, but there’s so much about the Lone Star State that even natives don’t know about. In this trivia audiobook, you’ll journey through Texas’s history, pop culture, sports, folklore, and so much more!
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Texas size trivia fun.
- By cosmitron on 04-12-18
By: Bill O'Neill
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History of Hawaii
- A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Saffir
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Just how did the ancient Hawaiians sail thousands of miles of open ocean without modern methods, without getting lost, and somehow finding new islands? How did such a rich culture even come to exist on perhaps the most isolated archipelago in the world? And is the nickname of a “beach island paradise” an accurate description of the various kinds of beautiful, intriguing, and sometimes even dangerous topographies and natural phenomena that make up Hawai'i? Learn the true answers to all these questions and much more in this audiobook of the history of Hawai'i.
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History of Hawaii
- By Christopher .W Coleman on 05-05-25
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Nation Within
- The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i
- By: Tom Coffman
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili'uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898.
By: Tom Coffman
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The Arabs
- A History
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.
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Superb Book About the Arab World
- By Nostromo on 05-29-16
By: Eugene Rogan
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Pirates and Palm Trees
- The Bloody History of Piracy in Hawaii and the Pacific
- By: Jan TenBruggencate
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pacific’s pirates were anything but romantic. They pillaged across the Pacific for five centuries, trafficking in slavery, stolen treasure, rape and murder. They died at alarming rates from scurvy, starvation, shipwreck and often at the hands of their fellow pirates. In Pirates and Palm Trees, award-winning Hawai’i writer Jan TenBruggencate tells the stories of Pacific piracy, with its tales of buried treasure, extraordinary violence and the brutal blackbirding years of the middle 1800s, when whole Pacific islands were depopulated to provide labor for guano mines and sugar plantations.
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The Hawaiians
- by Steve Stelle
- By: Steve Stelle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Author's note: This recent edition has been extensively edited to remove errors found in the previous edition. Surfing is not a crime, but it was in Old Hawaii when the Calvinist missionaries held power by influencing the royalty. When a group of young Americans jump ship and start the first surf camp in a downtrodden and practically deserted Waikiki, Head Missionary Hiram Bingham becomes apoplectic with rage. A cast of memorable characters fill this novel with many plot twists and ideas that are as relevant today as they were almost two hundred years ago. In 1824 sixteen-year-old, orphaned...
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AI Virtual Voice not good
- By Matthew Jamieson on 05-06-25
By: Steve Stelle
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Hawaii
- A Novel
- By: James A. Michener, Steve Berry - introduction
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever, Fred Sanders - introduction
- Length: 51 hrs and 56 mins
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The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands.
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Much to My Surprise, I Really Liked It
- By Donna L. Leary on 05-16-18
By: James A. Michener, and others
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Letters from Hawaii
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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A collection of letters Mark Twain wrote for a newspaper publication - from a long, turbulent journey to the island to his encounters with the islanders and the myriad Englishmen who have taken up residence on the island.
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for twain completists
- By mjhnsn on 06-15-17
By: Mark Twain
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Overthrow
- America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals.
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Looking at the dark side
- By Stanley on 08-02-06
By: Stephen Kinzer
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Unfamiliar Fishes
- By: Sarah Vowell
- Narrated by: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as crucial to our nation's identity, a year when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba and then the Philippines, becoming a meddling, self-serving, militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing.
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Sarah Vowell does it again!
- By Kat on 03-23-11
By: Sarah Vowell
New to Hawaii History
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The accuracy ,and the narrator was very well spoken.
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Very informative
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painful to listen to sometimes. I feel this book is very accurate and much deeper and more insightful and most of what is written about Hawaii, but at times, it is cruel and hard to listen to. while insightful, is unerringly mean spirited in his assessment of every event, and every person involved.
WOW! Best history of Halloween
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Truly wonderful history and storytelling.
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I was also happy to hear that the narrator knew how to pronounce Hawaiian
Fascinating treatment of a tropical paradise
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Interesting listen from a 1960s western perspective
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