HIST 3150 Biographical Approach to History: Hawaiian Monarchy: Kamehameha-Liliuokalani

Explores the history of the Native Hawaiian Monarchy and focuses on cultural contact. Primarily, this cultural contact originating between British explorers, such as Captain Cook, and Native Hawaiian chiefs, such as King Kamehameha in the late 18th century, culminated with Queen Liliuokalani’s overthrow as a sovereign monarch after American annexation of Hawaii in the late 19th century.