A constitutional monarchy established by Kamehameha I after his unification of the Hawaiian Islands in 1795, which maintained sovereignty until the US-backed overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893.
The Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown on 17 January 1893 when a Committee of Safety, backed by US Marines, deposed Queen Liliʻuokalani; the provisional government became the Republic of Hawaii in 1894, and the kingdom was formally annexed by the United States via the Newlands Resolution signed by President McKinley on 7 July 1898, becoming the Territory of Hawaii.
The definitive three-volume history of the Hawaiian Kingdom from unification through annexation.
A sweeping narrative history of Hawaii from Polynesian settlement through statehood, covering the kingdom years in depth.
Primary source memoir by the last Hawaiian monarch, written in 1898 during annexation struggle; essential for the overthrow period.
Near-primary Hawaiian-language source (originally serialised in 19th-century Hawaiian newspapers); the key indigenous account of the chiefdom era and Kamehameha's unification.
The standard scholarly history of the Hawaiian Kingdom; the three-volume set covers the entire 1778–1893 period.
Narrative political history of Hawaii from Polynesian settlement through statehood, covering the full Kingdom era.
The islands from first settlement through the kingdom and annexation.
A single-volume history of the island Pacific — broad context for this polity.