Claus Spreckels : : The Sugar King in Hawaii / / Jacob Adler.
Claus Spreckels, who built a sugar empire in California and in the Hawaiian Kingdom, died over half a century ago. Much of what has been written about his Hawaiian career makes him out to be a scoundrel. Beyond question he was a man of consequence in the islands. How much consequence? And for good o...
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Adler, Jacob, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Claus Spreckels : The Sugar King in Hawaii / Jacob Adler. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021] ©1966 1 online resource (351 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CONTENTS -- THE WAY IT WAS -- BUILDING A SUGAR EMPIRE -- SILVER AND GOLD -- DOWNFALL AND REVOLUTION -- A SPRECKELS ALBUM -- APPENDIX: SPRECKELS' TRIPS TO HAWAII -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Claus Spreckels, who built a sugar empire in California and in the Hawaiian Kingdom, died over half a century ago. Much of what has been written about his Hawaiian career makes him out to be a scoundrel. Beyond question he was a man of consequence in the islands. How much consequence? And for good or evil? These are the questions at the heart of this book.Spreckels became a card-playing crony and financial backer of Hawaii's last king, the merry David Kalakaua, who reigned from 1874 to 1891. He formed an alliance with that monarch's "evil angel," Premier Walter Murray Gibson. For a time, the unlikely Kalakaua-Gibson-Spreckels triumvirate controlled the kingdom. Later, after the overthrow of King Kalakaua's sister, Queen Liliuokalani, who reigned from 1891 to 1893, Spreckels attempted to put her back on the throne. In Hawaii his reputation for rascality lives on. In many ways, as the following pages will show, the reputation was well earned. But his contributions to the development of the island kingdom remain largely unsung. This book tries to throw some light on these. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business. bisacsh Feher, Joseph. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110564150 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824885144 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824885144 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824885144/original |
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