Braided Waters : Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii / Wade Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Wade, Author.

Contributor:

Worster, Donald, 1941- writer of foreword.

Series:

Western histories ; 11.

Western Histories ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Hawaii--Molokai.

Human ecology.

Political ecology--Hawaii--Molokai.

Political ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Hawaii--Molokai--History.

Nature.

Water-supply--Political aspects--Hawaii--Molokai.

Water-supply.

Molokai (Hawaii)--History.

Molokai (Hawaii).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps and Tables

Foreword / Worster, Donald

Introduction: Outer Island, In Between

1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000-1778

2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange, and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778-1848

3. A Good Land: Molokai aft er the Mahele, 1845-1869

4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893

5. A Bigger, Better Hawai'i: Making an American Molokai, 1893-1957

6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of "the Most Hawaiian Island"

Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520970656

0520970659

OCLC:

1059415063