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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Автор: Graham, Wade (Автор)
Інші автори: Worster, Donald, 1941- (writer of foreword.)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2019]
Серія:Western histories ; 11.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv80cd98
Зміст:
  • 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.