Ralph S. Kuykendall
1967
This third volume of the definitive history of the Hawaiian Kingdom completes the project launched over forty years ago by the Historical Commission of the Territory of Hawaii and taken over in 1932 by the Department of History of the University of Hawaii. As originally planned by Professor Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, the first six chapters of this book were to be included in the second volume of the series, but it was decided that earlier publication of that volume was preferable. The present volume was to have included the history of the Republic of Hawaii until its annexation to the United States in 1898. Professor Kuykendall had to revise some of his early chapters because they had been written with that date in view. As more and more of the material became available from the archives of foreign countries, the very bulk of the data would have made it necessary to limit the present study to the reigns of Kalakaua and Liliuokalani, to the downfall of the monarchy, and to the Provisional Government which preceded the establishment of the Republic of Hawaii on July 4, 1894. Professor Kuykendall had been ill for several months before his death in May 1963. Nevertheless, for a time he continued to appear daily at his office, and it was then that he decided to carry his history only to the overthrow of the Queen and to summarize the period of the Provisional Government. At the same time he abandoned his plan to include a chapter on the social and cultural history of the monarchy. This is a great loss to Hawaiian historiography because no one is likely to be so well versed in all phases of life under the monarchy. Before he left for the Mainland in January 1963, Professor Kuykendall reviewed the first twenty chapters in whole or in part with an editor of the University Press. Therefore the chapters appear in almost exactly the form in which he left them. In the fragment of Chapter Twenty-One which he had completed, the only change made has been the addition of a number of
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