The Stolen Crown: Hawaii’s Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against American Annexation
摘要
To contextualize Hawaii’s plight, consider Senator Daniel Inouye’s 1993 address during a congressional reexamination of the US role in overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani: “I am chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee... this committee has to act upon 800 treaties... shamefully, 430 of these treaties were not even considered by this body. And of the 370 that we did consider and ratify, we violated provisions in every one of them”.