[PDF] The Cabinet Vol 2 Of 2 eBook

Author : Sutherland Menzies
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752412682

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Reproduction of the original: Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sutherland Menzies

Author : Ralph S. Kuykendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1953-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870224324

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The colorful history of the Hawaiian Islands, since their discovery in 1778 by the great British navigator Captain James Cook, falls naturally into three periods. During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the United States, set up a miniature republic. The third period began in 1898 when Hawaii by annexation became American territory. The Hawaiian Kingdom, by Ralph S. Kuykendall, is the detailed story of the island monarchy. In the first volume, "Foundation and Transformation," the author gives a brief sketch of old Hawaii before the coming of the Europeans, based on the known and accepted accounts of this early period. He then shows how the arrival of sea rovers, traders, soldiers of forture, whalers, scoundrels, missionaries, and statesmen transformed the native kingdom, and how the foundations of modern Hawaii were laid. In the second volume, "Twenty Critical Years," the author deals with the middle period of the kingdom's history, when Hawaii was trying to insure her independence while world powers maneuvered for dominance in the Pacific. It was an important period with distinct and well-marked characteristics, but the noteworthy changes and advances which occurred have received less attention from students of history than they deserve. Much of the material is taken from manuscript sources and appears in print for the first time in the second volume. The third and final volume of this distinguished trilogy, "The Kalakaua Dynasty," covers the colorful reign of King Kalakaua, the Merry Monarch, and the brief and tragic rule of his successor, Queen Liliuokalani. This volume is enlivened by such controversial personages as Claus Spreckels, Walter Murray Gibson, and Celso Caesar Moreno. Through it runs the thread of the reciprocity treaty with the United States, its stimulating effect upon the island economy, and the far-reaching consequences of immigration from the Orient to supply plantation labor. The trilogy closes with the events leading to the downfall of the Hawaiian monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government in 1893.

Author : Paul Bartsch
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Science
ISBN :

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The late Lieut. Col. W. H. Turton presented a collection of marine mollusks from Port Alfred and the South African faunal area to the United States National Museum with a request for identification and report. At the end of the paper, the author presented what he believed to be a list of all the species that have been reported from South Africa of which there are no specimens in the United States National Museum with hope that list would lead to future collecting.