Imperial Maine and Hawai'i : interpretive essays in the history of nineteenth-century American expansion /
Burlin, Paul T.,1946-
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index.
Introduction -- An imperilism of the spirit -- Peter Allen Brinsmande and the tragic pursuit of a pious capitalism -- Elias Bond and Daniel Dole : laboring for Christ in Hawai'i -- Luther severance : Whig ideologue as diplomat -- Elisha Hunt Allen and the search for a "compentency" -- James G. Blaine, John L. Stevens, and visions of imperial grandeur -- Sanford Ballard Dole and the "new state of things" -- Harold Marsh Sewall and imperial consummation -- Conclusion : heirs to empire.
Imperialism