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Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist. In James L. Haley’s ’Captive Paradise,’ a compelling warts-and-all history of Hawaii’s era of independence.

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The history of Hawaii as an independent nation spans less than a century, from King Kamehameha I’s conquest of the last island resisting him in 1810 to its annexation by the United States in 1898.

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