Sovereign Sugar : : Industry and Environment in Hawaii / / Carol A. MacLennan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016
• VerfasserIn: MacLennan, Carol A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 21 illustrations, 4 maps

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, p...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• ONE. Waves of Influence
• TWO. Sugar's Ecology
• THREE. Four Families
• FOUR. Five Companies
• FIVE. Agricultural Landscapes
• SIX. Plantation Centers
• SEVEN. Sugar's Industrial Complex
• EIGHT. Plantation Community
• NINE. An Island Tour 1930s
• TEN. Planters Organize
• ELEVEN. Resource Policy
• Conclusion Sugar's End
• appendix 1. Vegetation Zones
• appendix 2. Sugar Crop Acreage, Yield, Production, and Employment, 1836-1960
• appendix 3. Major Sugarcane Producers in the Pacific and North American Markets, 1880-1940
• appendix 4. Missionary Land Purchases of Government/Crown Lands, 1850-1866
• appendix 5. Intermarriage of Second-Generation Missionary Families
• appendix 5. Intermarriage of Second-Generation Missionary Families
• appendix 7. Subsidiary Companies Organized, 1880-1910
• appendix 9. Major Water Development Projects
• appendix 10. Crown and Government Lands Leased for Sugarcane
• appendix 11. Ranches in 1930
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author