Joy Schulz explores Polynesia’s nineteenth-century women rulers, who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.

Joy Schulz is a history and political science instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. She is the author of Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific (Nebraska, 2017).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Woman in Red
1. Purea
2. ‘Aimata
3. Ka‘ahumanu
4. Lili‘uokalani
Conclusion: To All the Queens
Appendix A: Partial Letter from P¿mare to Queen Victoria (1844)
Appendix B: Queen Lili‘uokalani’s Formal Protest to the United States against the Annexation Treaty (1897)
Notes
Bibliography
Index