Key Content Features:

• Chapters covering unification of the kingdom, contact with Westerners, the Mahele, the influence of the sugar industry, and the overthrow of the monarchy rewritten for easier readability
• New color illustrations including paintings by Herb Kawainui Kane, never-before-published portraits of the monarchs, vintage postcards, and then-and-now photographs
• Photographs, drawings, and primary source documents from local archives and collections.
• Challenging vocabulary defined in the text margins

> Appendixes covering the formation of the islands, Hawaiʻi’s geography, and Polynesian migration

> A timeline and a bibliography

1) Western Arrival: Captain Cook (1775 -1795)

2) King Kamehameha I (1795-1819)

3) The Old Order Changes (1815-1825)

4) New Beliefs

5) The Reign of Liholiho, King Kamehameha II (1819-1824)

6) Whalers and Traders (1825-1854)

7 ) Teachers and Preachers (1820-1854)

8) Foreign Entanglements

9) Sugar and the Land

10) Shifting Influences and King Kamehameha IV (1854-1863)

11) Kamehameha V: The Kamehameha Dynasty Ends (1863-1872)

12) Lunalilo, the People’s Choice (1873-1874)

13) The Reign of Kalākaua (1874-1891)

14) Queen Lili‘uokalani, the Overthrow of the Monarchy, and Annexation (1887-1901)

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History of the Hawaiian Kingdom Skills Book

Hawaiian Monarchy Chapter Book Series

State of Hawai'i Flat Wall Map