Sugar Water : : Hawaii's Plantation Ditches / / Carol Wilcox.
Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the 20th century, and its influence was felt across a broad spectrum: economics, politics, the environment, and society. This success was made possible, in part, through the liberal use of Hawaii's natural resources. Chief among the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 1997 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Common Standards -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. SUGAR AND WATER IN HAWAII -- 1. Pioneers, Politics, and Profits -- 2. Water Use and Rights -- PART II HAWAII’S DITCHES -- 3. The Ditch Builders -- 4. Early Efforts -- 5. East Kauai -- 6. West Kauai -- 7. Oahu -- 8. East Maui -- 9. West Maui -- 10. Hawaii -- APPENDIXES -- Glossary of Hawaiian Words -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the 20th century, and its influence was felt across a broad spectrum: economics, politics, the environment, and society. This success was made possible, in part, through the liberal use of Hawaii's natural resources. Chief among these was water, which was needed in enormous quantities to grow and process sugarcane. Between 1856 and 1920, sugar planters built miles of ditches, diverting water from almost every watershed in Hawaii. "Ditch" is a humble term for these great waterways. By 1920, ditches, tunnels, and flumes were diverting over 800 million gallons a day from streams and mountains to the canefields and their mills. Sugar Water chronicles the building of Hawaii's ditches, the men who conceived, engineered, and constructed them, and the sugar plantations and water companies that ran them. It explains how traditional Hawaiian water rights and practices were affected by Western ways and how sugar economics transformed Hawaii from an insular, agrarian, and debt-ridden society into one of the most cosmopolitan and prosperous in the Pacific. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780824864507 9783110564150 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780824864507 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Carol Wilcox. |