Braided waters : environment and society in Molokai, Hawaii /
"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 tra...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2019]
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| سلاسل: | Western histories ;
11. |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv80cd98 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Foreword / by Donald Worster
- Introduction : outer island, in between
- Wet and dry : the Polynesian period, 400-1778
- Traffick and taboo : trade, biological exchange, and law in the making of a new Pacific world, 1778-1848
- A good land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845-1869
- The bonanza horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893
- A bigger, better Hawaii: making an American Molokai, 1893-1957
- From lonely isle to friendly isle: economic struggles in the twentieth century and the future of "the most Hawaiian island"
- Conclusion : two experiences of settlement.