Sovereign Sugar: Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i 9780824840242

Although little remains of Hawai‘i’s plantation economy, the sugar industry’s past dominance has created the Hawai‘i we

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Table of contents :
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
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