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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Subvention; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Tables; Foreword by Donald Worster; 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 after 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.