{"id":6998,"date":"2024-04-12T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2024-04-12T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:59:33","slug":"accessing-two-books-on-the-political-and-legal-history-of-the-hawaiian-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/accessing-two-books-on-the-political-and-legal-history-of-the-hawaiian-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Two Books on the Political and Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2011, Dr. Keanu Sai wrote a book titled <em>Ua Mau Ke Ea &#8211; Sovereignty Endures: An Overview of the Political and Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands<\/em>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puafoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">P\u016b\u2018\u0101 Foundation<\/a><\/strong> is the publisher of this book that can be purchased online at their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.puafoundation.org\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong>. This book draws from Dr. Sai&#8217;s doctoral dissertation in political science titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~anu\/pdf\/Dissertation(Sai).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom: Beginning the Transition from Occupied to Restored State<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. <em>Ua Mau<\/em> is currently being used to teach Hawaiian history in the Middle Schools, High Schools, and entry level collage classes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-848x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-580x700.jpg 580w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-1273x1536.jpg 1273w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Cover.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2020, Dr. Sai is an editor and author of a free eBook titled <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/pdf\/Hawaiian_Royal_Commission_of_Inquiry_(2020).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes and Human Rights Violations Committed in the Hawaiian Kingdom<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Contributing authors include Professor Matthew Craven from the University of London, SOAS, Law Department, on the subject of the Hawaiian Kingdom\u2019s continued existence as a State under international law; Professor William Schabas from Middlesex University London, Law Department, on the subject of war crimes being committed in the Hawaiian Kingdom; and Professor Federico Lenzerini from the University of Siena, Italy, Department of Political and International Science, on the subject of human rights violations committed in the Hawaiian Kingdom and the right of self-determination of a population under military occupation. In 2022, a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/pdf\/Book_Review_RCI_book_(Budziszewska).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book review of the Royal Commission of Inquiry\u2019s eBook<\/a><\/strong> was done by Dr. Anita Budziszewska from the University of Warsaw, which was published in the <em>Polish Journal of Political Science<\/em>. This book is currently being used in undergraduate and graduate courses at universities.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-490x700.jpg 490w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-1434x2048.jpg 1434w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Royal-Commission-of-Inquiry_COVER-scaled.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To access Dr. Sai&#8217;s other publications you can visit his University of Hawai\u2018i <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~anu\/publications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong>. Dr. Sai firmly believes in the power of education. He often states, &#8220;The practical value of history, is that it is a film of the past, run through the projector of today, on to the screen of tomorrow.&#8221; It is through education and awareness that the national consciousness of the Hawaiian Kingdom will be restored to its rightful place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, Dr. Keanu Sai wrote a book titled Ua Mau Ke Ea &#8211; Sovereignty Endures: An Overview of the Political and Legal History of the Hawaiian Islands. P\u016b\u2018\u0101 Foundation is the publisher of this book that can be purchased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/accessing-two-books-on-the-political-and-legal-history-of-the-hawaiian-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,3,5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-international-law","category-international-relations","category-national","category-treaties","category-war-crimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-1OS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}