- 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
Five Companies
Five Companies
- Chapter:
- (p.81) Four Five Companies
- Source:
- Sovereign Sugar
- Author(s):
Carol A. MacLennan
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter looks into the history of the Big Five—the organization of missionary family wealth which forms the core of Hawaiʻi's massive environmental change from Hawaiian agriculture to the mono-crop makeover of island landscapes. These five companies controlled land, water, and forest resources, and had a virtual lock on labor relations and public policy. The origins of this centralization of Hawaiʻi's wealth in a complex, tight oligarchy traces back to the 1840s. The chapter considers how the multiethnic nineteenth-century wealth of Hawaiians, Chinese, Germans, British, and Americans had come under the domain of these corporations, further investigating the role they had in managing Hawaiʻi's environment, not to mention its people.
Keywords: Hawaiʻi wealth, Big Five, missionary family wealth, labor relations, public policy
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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
