Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
A Hawaiian Royal Memoir of Sovereignty, the 1893 Overthrow, and the Struggle Against Colonial AnnexationBy Liliʻuokalani
Length11h 47m
About this audiobook
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is Liliʻuokalani's intimate yet explicitly political account of Hawaiʻi's monarchy, the constitutional crisis that dispossessed her, and the American-backed overthrow of 1893. Combining autobiography, documentary testimony, speeches, letters, and historical reflection, the book moves between personal recollection and national history. Its prose is dignified, elegiac, and frequently argumentative: beneath the conventions of the late-Victorian memoir lies a sustained indictment of imperial ambition and a defense of Hawaiian sovereignty. The work is especially significant as a counter-narrative to triumphalist accounts of annexation, preserving Hawaiian perspectives, political vocabulary, and cultural values within a contested literary and historical record. Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917), the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, wrote from the position of a sovereign deprived of her throne and placed under severe political constraint. Her education, Christian faith, musical achievement, and lifelong involvement in Hawaiian governance informed a narrative attentive both to international diplomacy and to the welfare of her people. The book emerged amid the campaign for United States annexation, when public representations of the overthrow threatened to erase Hawaiian claims to legitimacy and self-determination. This essential volume is recommended to readers of indigenous history, anticolonial literature, political memoir, and Pacific studies. It offers not merely a record of personal suffering, but a lucid, emotionally powerful argument about sovereignty, memory, and the ethics of historical representation.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length11 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 20, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Karen Apostle: or, Memoir of Ko Thah-byu (Annotated)
2Chapter I. A Sketch of My Childhood
3Chapter II. Some Incidents of My Youth
4Chapter III. Kamehameha Iv
5Chapter IV. My Married Life
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6Chapter V. Hawaiian Music, and a Ducal Guest
7Chapter VI. Kamehameha V
8Chapter VII. Queen Emma
9Chapter VIII. King Kalakaua
10Chapter IX. Heir Apparent
11Chapter X. My First Visit to the United States
12Chapter XI. Mauna Loa
13Chapter XII. Kalakaua's Tour of the World
14Chapter XIII. My Regency
15Chapter XIV. A Serious Accident
16Chapter XV. Kalakaua's Return
17Chapter XVI. Coronation Ceremonies
18Chapter XVII. Princess Ruth and Mrs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop
19Chapter XVIII. Benevolent Societies
20Chapter XIX. Queen Kapiolani's Journey
21Chapter XX. Washington – the White House – Mount Vernon
22Chapter XXI. Boston and New York – en Route for England
23Chapter XXII. Arrival – Liverpool – Some English Towns
24Chapter XXIII. Sovereign of England and India
25Chapter XXIV. The Reception at the Foreign Office
26Chapter XXV. The Jubilee – at the Abbey – at the Palace
27Chapter XXVI. The Prince of Wales, "Grand Master" Mason
28Chapter XXVII. England's Homes and Hospitality
29Chapter XXVIII. Ill News From Hawaii – Our Return
30Chapter XXIX. "The Bayonet Constitution"
31Chapter XXX. Invited to Conspire Against the King
32Chapter XXXI. The King Threatened and Oppressed
33Chapter XXXII. Attempted Revolution
34Chapter XXXIII. The King's Departure – Again Regent
35Chapter XXXIV. The King's Return – My Accession
36Chapter XXXV. The Last Sleep – Lying in State
37Chapter XXXVI. My Cabinet – Princess Kaiulani
38Chapter XXXVII. My Husband Made Prince Consort – His Death
39Chapter XXXVIII. Hawaiians Plead for a New Constitution
40Chapter XXXIX. The "Crimes I Am Charged Withal."
41Chapter XL. Overthrow of the Monarchy
42Chapter XLI. Some Important Inquiries
43Chapter XLII. Attempt to Restore the Monarchy
44Chapter XLIII. I Am Placed Under Arrest
45Chapter XLIV. Imprisonment – Forced Abdication
46Chapter XLV. Brought to Trial
47Chapter XLVI. Sentenced – My Prison Life
48Chapter XLVII. Released on Parole
49Chapter XLVIII. Mr. Joseph Kahooluhi Nawahi
50Chapter XLIX. A Change of Scene to Forget Sorrow
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