Unfamiliar Fishes

Sarah Vowell

eBook - 2011

From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820, who came to Christianize the local heathens, to the coup d'état led by the missionaries' sons in 1893, overthrowing the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, if often appalling or tragic, characters. Whalers who fire cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their god-given right to whores; an incestuous princess pulled betwe...en her new god and her brother-husband; sugar barons, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian-born president of the United States during...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Sarah Vowell
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB00475AYD2
Release Date3/22/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101486450
Release Date3/22/2011