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The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917

5 reviews
Helena G. Allen

Mutual Publishing, 1991

A Hawaiian Tragedy
This is an excellent and well documented biography of Hawaii's last queen. Helena Allen tells the story of Liliuokalani and through her eyes we view the waning days of the Hawaiian monarchy and the oligarchy that would manipulate the media and congress to eventually affect the annexation of the kingdom to the US. Much of this story makes your blood boil. Yet beyond the political injustice, this ...

Brentano and Intrinsic Value (Modern European Philosophy)
Roderick M. Chisholm

Cambridge University Press, 1986

Franz Brentano developed an original theory of intrinsic value which he attempted to base on his philosophical psychology. Roderick Chisholm presents here a critical exposition of this theory and its place in Brentano's general philosophical system. He gives a detailed account of Brentano's ontology, showing how Brentano tried to secure objectivity for ethics not through a theory of practical reason, but through his theory of the intentional ...

Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900--1939

3 reviews
Guillaume de Syon

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

"UP SHIP" - ZEPPELIN
In the INTRODUCTION the author notes "... Germany in the first half of the twentieth century offers an especially valuable case study of the intersection of technology and culture." Readers often think of Zeppelin history solely in terms of the Hindenburg crash; but in Europe from 1908 to 1939, the Zeppelin was a powerful technological and cultural symbol that was manipulated during the Germany's ...

Franz Kafka And the Genealogy of Modern European Philosophy: From Phenomenology to Post-structuralism ...
Neil Allan

Edwin Mellen Press, 2005

Shows how Franz Kafka's literary output informed his study of the 'descriptive psychology' of Franz Brentano. This book then moves on to an analysis and critique of the post-structuralist reception of Kafka.

Hula Heaven: The Queen's Album
Mark A. S. Blackburn

Schiffer Publishing, 2001

This book represents the ultimate Hawaiian experience and art form: the Hula, through photographs taken in the 1880s and 1890s. These images were gathered by the last reigning monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani (1839 -1917), who reigned from 1891 until 1893, and were presented in an album to her personal nurse as a token of her Aloha. For the most part, the photographs were previously unknown and unpublished, and represent some of the most ...

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