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Sovereign Sugar - Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i (Hardcover)
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Sovereign Sugar - Industry and Environment in Hawai‘i (Hardcover)
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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 socio- economic,
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.
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