Sovereign sugar : industry and environment in Hawaiʻi

The Resource Sovereign sugar : industry and environment in Hawaiʻi

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Sovereign sugar : industry and environment in Hawaiʻi

Title remainder

industry and environment in Hawaiʻi

Statement of responsibility

Carol A. MacLennan

Language

eng

Summary

Although little remains of Hawai'i's plantation economy, the sugar industry's past dominance has created the Hawai'i we see today. Many of the most pressing and controversial issues--urban and resort development, water rights, expansion of suburbs into agriculturally rich lands, pollution from herbicides, invasive species in native forests, an unsustainable economy--can be tied to Hawai'i's industrial sugar history. Sovereign Sugar unravels the tangled relationship between the sugar industry and Hawai'i's cultural and natural landscapes. It is the first work to fully examine the complex tapestry of socioeconomic, political, and environmental forces that shaped sugar's role in Hawai'i. While early Polynesian and European influences on island ecosystems started the process of biological change, plantation agriculture, with its voracious need for land and water, profoundly altered Hawai'i's landscape. MacLennan focuses on the rise of industrial and political power among the sugar planter elite and its political-ecological consequences. The book opens in the 1840s when the Hawaiian Islands were under the influence of American missionaries. Changes in property rights and the move toward Western governance, along with the demands of a growing industrial economy, pressed upon the new Hawaiian nation and its forests and water resources. Subsequent chapters trace island ecosystems, plantation communities, and natural resource policies through time--by the 1930s, the sugar economy engulfed both human and environmental landscapes. The author argues that sugar manufacture has not only significantly transformed Hawai'i but its legacy provides lessons for future outcomes

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

338.4/766412209969

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HD9107.H3

LC item number

M33 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

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