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Sovereign Sugar - Industry and Environment in Hawaii (Paperback)
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Sovereign Sugar - Industry and Environment in Hawaii (Paperback)
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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 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.
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