- 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
An Island Tour
An Island Tour
1930s
- Chapter:
- (p.201) Nine An Island Tour
- Source:
- Sovereign Sugar
- Author(s):
Carol A. MacLennan
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter presents some land use reports from the 1930s, which shows the state of Hawaiʻi's environment after nearly a millennium of human occupation and agricultural use of the island landscape. John Wesley Coulter, a geography professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, provided the territorial government with data on land use in the islands. His major reports in 1933 and 1939 provide a good view of the changes brought by the industrialization of Hawaiʻi's agriculture. His maps are reproduced in this chapter, and reveal the extent of the plantation's replacement of natural and human Hawaiian landscapes. Except for the lava fields and the highest alpine lands of Haleakalā, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea, all available land had a direct economic use. Even the forests were devoted to water production for irrigation.
Keywords: land use, Hawaiʻi, industrialization, Hawaiian landscapes, irrigation, environmental change
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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
