- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
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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
Four Families
Four Families
- Chapter:
- (p.52) Three Four Families
- Source:
- Sovereign Sugar
- Author(s):
Carol A. MacLennan
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter examines how the family—in particular the missionary family—had ushered Hawaiʻi's entry into the modern world economy. The ideas about the nature of property relations brought by New England missionaries to Hawaiian shores and adopted by the Hawaiian aliʻi represented the incorporation of a Western political economy in direct conflict with the indigenous Hawaiian notions that had governed production before contact. The particular characteristics of the missionary–settler community determined the evolution of property and production in the islands after 1850. Each of the first three generations played a role in establishing Hawaiian law, organizing plantation production and agencies to market sugar, and consolidating wealth into a corporate and vertically integrated insular system of economic control. Each of these three generations also played a central part in wresting control of Hawaiʻi's economic society from Hawaiian producers and their political elites, and finally, gaining political control over the islands.
Keywords: missionary family, New England missionary, property relations, Western political economy, economic society, Hawaiian property
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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
