Sovereign Sugar
Industry and Environment in Hawaii
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20025486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol A Maclennan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 396 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Sovereign Sugar (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839499.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4235946991 |
| ISBN | 9780824839499 |
| Open Library | OL27537060M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Although little remains of Hawaiʻi's plantation economy, the sugar industry's past dominance has created the Hawaiʻi 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 Hawaiʻi's industrial sugar history. This book unravels the tangled relationship between the sugar industry and Hawaiʻi'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 Hawaiʻi. 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 Hawaiʻi's landscape. The book focuses on the rise of industrial and political power among the sugar planter elite and its political–ecological consequences. It 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 book argues that sugar manufacture has not only significantly transformed Hawaiʻi but its legacy provides lessons for future outcomes
Agriculture · Archaeology · Dominance (genetics) · Economics · Economy · Elite · Geography · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ecology · environmental conditions · History · Human ecology · Human Ecology · Sugarcane industry · united states
The Plantation as Contested Territory
Henry Adams’s Protean Views of the American Empire, 1890–1905
From the Sugar Oligarchy to the Agrochemical Oligopoly
Experiences in Archaeology, Social Justice, and Democratic Principles
Demographic change and backlash
The Colonial Character of the Drug Treatment Superstructure
Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise
From First Canoe to Statehood
Introduction
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
Consistency and change in the vocabulary of fundamental rights in Hawaiian law, 1847–1902
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawai‘i
Plants, insects, and the biological management of American empire
Sweetness and exile
Agricultural expertise, race, and economic development
William Munro Tapp
Diversity and Value of Extant Hawaiian Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum [L.]) Cultivars
Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai'i
Hawai'i
Nonwhiteness' in nineteenth-century Hawai'i
Plantation pasts, plantation futures
Plant-people Intimacies
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |