Braided Waters : Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii.
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 t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Western Histories Ser.
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| 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, m. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520970656 0520970659 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |