- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
One Waves of Influence -
Two Sugar’s Ecology -
Three Four Families -
Four Five Companies -
Five Agricultural Landscapes -
Six Plantation Centers -
Seven Sugar’s Industrial Complex -
Eight Plantation Community -
Nine An Island Tour -
Ten Planters Organize -
Eleven Resource Policy - Conclusion
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Appendix 1 Vegetation Zones -
Appendix 2 Sugar Crop Acreage, Yield, Production, and Employment, 1836–1960 -
Appendix 3 Major Sugarcane Producers in the Pacific and North American Markets, 1880–1940 -
Appendix 4 Missionary Land Purchases of Government/Crown Lands, 1850–1866 -
Appendix 5 Intermarriage of Second-Generation Missionary Families -
Appendix 6 Percentage Increase of Largest Plantations’ Sugar Crops, 1920 and 1930 (listed in order of production in 1920 for each island) -
Appendix 7 Subsidiary Companies Organized, 1880–1910 -
Appendix 8 Plantation Centers, Acreage in 1867 and 1879 -
Appendix 9 Major Water Development Projects -
Appendix 10 Crown and Government Lands Leased for Sugarcane -
Appendix 11 Ranches in 1930 - References
- Index
- About the Author
- Production Notes
Sugar’s Ecology
Sugar’s Ecology
- Chapter:
- (p.36) Two Sugar’s Ecology
- Source:
- Sovereign Sugar
- Author(s):
Carol A. MacLennan
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter discusses the third wave of ecological change—Hawaiʻi's early commercial sugar plantations—as it entered a world undergoing rapid changes in technology and market expansion. In tracing sugar's environmental history in these islands, the chapter focuses on two main points. First, the ability of the sugar capitalists, primarily missionary descendants, to organize their assets and secure their power in contests with Hawaiian monarchs and later with American opponents is a signature feature of this industry's success; and second, their schemes for managing sugar's tricky environmental demands with centralized political and scientific strategies had a major influence on the shape of the land and the legacy of island resources that mark today's landscape.
Keywords: ecological change, Hawaiian sugar plantations, environmental history, sugar capitalists, environmental demands, island resources
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
-
One Waves of Influence -
Two Sugar’s Ecology -
Three Four Families -
Four Five Companies -
Five Agricultural Landscapes -
Six Plantation Centers -
Seven Sugar’s Industrial Complex -
Eight Plantation Community -
Nine An Island Tour -
Ten Planters Organize -
Eleven Resource Policy - Conclusion
-
Appendix 1 Vegetation Zones -
Appendix 2 Sugar Crop Acreage, Yield, Production, and Employment, 1836–1960 -
Appendix 3 Major Sugarcane Producers in the Pacific and North American Markets, 1880–1940 -
Appendix 4 Missionary Land Purchases of Government/Crown Lands, 1850–1866 -
Appendix 5 Intermarriage of Second-Generation Missionary Families -
Appendix 6 Percentage Increase of Largest Plantations’ Sugar Crops, 1920 and 1930 (listed in order of production in 1920 for each island) -
Appendix 7 Subsidiary Companies Organized, 1880–1910 -
Appendix 8 Plantation Centers, Acreage in 1867 and 1879 -
Appendix 9 Major Water Development Projects -
Appendix 10 Crown and Government Lands Leased for Sugarcane -
Appendix 11 Ranches in 1930 - References
- Index
- About the Author
- Production Notes
