Braided Waters - Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii (Hardcover)

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Western Histories, 11
Release date:	2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Wade Graham
Foreword by:	Donald Worster
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-29859-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-29859-4
Barcode:	9780520298590

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