{"id":7762,"date":"2025-02-25T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2025-02-25T21:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:35:47","slug":"book-launch-tomorrow-at-the-university-of-hawaii-of-oxford-university-press-publication-of-unconquered-states-non-european-powers-in-the-imperial-age-with-a-chapter-on-the-american-occ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/book-launch-tomorrow-at-the-university-of-hawaii-of-oxford-university-press-publication-of-unconquered-states-non-european-powers-in-the-imperial-age-with-a-chapter-on-the-american-occ\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch Tomorrow at the University of Hawai\u2018i of Oxford University Press&#8217; publication of &#8220;Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age&#8221; with a Chapter on the American Occupation of Hawai\u2018i"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZtCddbNpyqA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow will be the official book launch of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/unconquered-states-9780198863298?type=listing&amp;prevSortField=8&amp;sortField=8&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;start=180&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age<\/a><\/strong><\/em> published by England&#8217;s Oxford University Press in December of 2024. Dr. Keanu Sai is a contributor of a chapter in the book titled &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hawaii.edu\/~anu\/pdf\/Hawaii_Sovereignty_and_Survival_(Sai).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hawai\u2018i&#8217;s Sovereignty and Survival in the Age of Empire<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221; In his chapter Dr. Sai <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his chapter, Dr. Sai covers: the legal and political history of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the evolution of governance as a constitutional monarchy, the unlawful overthrow of the government by United States troops in 1893, the prolonged American occupation since 1893, the restoration of the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1997 by a Council of Regency, and the recognition of the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom, as a State, and the Council of Regency, as its provisional government, by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, Netherlands, in the 1999-2001 international arbitration case <em>Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom<\/em>. He concludes his chapter with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Despite over a century of revisionist history, \u201cthe continuity of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign State is grounded in the very same principles that the United States and every other State have relied on for their own legal existence.\u201d The Hawaiian Kingdom is a magnificent story of perseverance and continuity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-541x700.png 541w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Unconquered-States-Book-Launch-2025.png 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED ON FACEBOOK STARTING AT 3:30pm HI TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow will be the official book launch of Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age published by England&#8217;s Oxford University Press in December of 2024. Dr. Keanu Sai is a contributor of a chapter in the book titled &#8220;Hawai\u2018i&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/book-launch-tomorrow-at-the-university-of-hawaii-of-oxford-university-press-publication-of-unconquered-states-non-european-powers-in-the-imperial-age-with-a-chapter-on-the-american-occ\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-international-law","category-international-relations","category-national","category-treaties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-21c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","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=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}