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Sugar Water

Author : Carol Wilcox
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864506
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Sugar Water written by Carol Wilcox and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Grove Farm Plantation

Author : Bob Krauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grove Farm Plantation written by Bob Krauss and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill

Author : C. Allan Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824895761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill written by C. Allan Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai'i's sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) to survive into the twenty-first century. The authors, both agricultural scientists, offer a detailed history of the industry and its contributions, balanced with discussion of the enormous societal and environmental changes due to its aggressive search for labor, land, and water. Sugarcane cultivation in Hawai'i began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers, expanded into a commercial crop in the mid-1800s, and became a significant economic and political force by the end of the nineteenth century. Hawai'i's sugar industry entered the twentieth century heralding major improvements in sugarcane varieties, irrigation systems, fertilizer use, biological pest control, and the use of steam power for field and factory operations. By the 1920s, the industry was among the most technologically advanced in the world. Its expansion, however, was not without challenges. Hawai'i's annexation by the United States in 1898 invalidated the Kingdom's contract labor laws, reduced the plantations' hold on labor, and resulted in successful strikes by Japanese and Filipino workers. The industry survived the low sugar prices of the Great Depression and labor shortages of World War II by mechanizing to increase productivity. The 1950s and 1960s saw science-driven gains in output and profitability, but the following decades brought unprecedented economic pressures that reduced the number of plantations from twenty-seven in 1970 to only four in 2000. By 2011 only one plantation remained. Hawai'i's last surviving sugar mill, HC&S--with its large size, excellent water resources, and efficient irrigation and automated systems--remained generally profitable into the 2000s. Severe drought conditions, however, caused substantial operating losses in 2008 and 2009. Though profits rebounded, local interest groups have mounted legal challenges to HC&S's historic water rights and the public health effects of preharvest burning. While the company has experimented with alternative harvesting methods to lessen environmental impacts, HC&S has yet to find those to be economically viable. As a result, the future of the last sugar company in Hawai'i remains uncertain.

Waipahu

Author : Michael T. Yamamoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967927954
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Waipahu written by Michael T. Yamamoto and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pau Hana

Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824809560
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Pau Hana written by Ronald Takaki and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A scholarly work but as readable as a novel, this is the first history of plantation life as experienced by the laborers themselves. The oppressive round-the-clock conditions under which they worked will make you glad they fought back in one huge strike; Takaki charts this conflict well." --San Francisco Chronicle

The Three-Year Swim Club

Author : Julie Checkoway
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1455523437
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Three-Year Swim Club written by Julie Checkoway and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.

King Cane

Author : John Womack Vandercook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Cane written by John Womack Vandercook and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941

Author : Barbara F. Kawakami
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824817305
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii, 1885–1941 written by Barbara F. Kawakami and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1886 and 1924 thousands of Japanese journeyed to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. First the men came, followed by brides, known only from their pictures, for marriages arranged by brokers. This book tells the story of two generations of plantation workers as revealed by the clothing they brought with them and the adaptations they made to it to accommodate the harsh conditions of plantation labor. Barbara Kawakami has created a vivid picture highlighted by little-known facts gleaned from extensive interviews, from study of preserved pieces of clothing and how they were constructed, and from the literature. She shows that as the cloth preferred by the immigrants shifted from kasuri (tie-dyed fabric from Japan) to palaka (heavy cotton cloth woven in a white plaid pattern on a dark blue background) so too their outlooks shifted from those of foreigners to those of Japanese Americans. Chapters on wedding and funeral attire present a cultural history of the life events at which they were worn, and the examination of work, casual, and children's clothing shows us the social fabric of the issei (first-generation Japanese). Changes that occurred in nisei (second-generation) tradition and clothing are also addressed. The book is illustrated with rare photographs of the period from family collections.

Voices from the Canefields

Author : Franklin Odo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199813035
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Canefields written by Franklin Odo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context.

Lost Kingdom

Author : Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194885
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Lost Kingdom written by Julia Flynn Siler and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author delivers “a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii . . . A real gem of a book” (Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot). Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili‘uokalani, the last queen of Hawai‘i. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands. Lucrative sugar plantations gradually subsumed the majority of the land, owned almost exclusively by white planters, dubbed the “Sugar Kings.” Hawai‘i became a prize in the contest between America, Britain, and France, each seeking to expand their military and commercial influence in the Pacific. The monarchy had become a figurehead, victim to manipulation from the wealthy sugar plantation owners. Lili‘u was determined to enact a constitution to reinstate the monarchy’s power but was outmaneuvered by the United States. The annexation of Hawai‘i had begun, ushering in a new century of American imperialism. “An important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should.” —The New York Times Book Review “Siler gives us a riveting and intimate look at the rise and tragic fall of Hawaii’s royal family . . . A reminder that Hawaii remains one of the most breathtaking places in the world. Even if the kingdom is lost.” —Fortune “[A] well-researched, nicely contextualized history . . . [Indeed] ‘one of the most audacious land grabs of the Gilded Age.’” —Los Angeles Times

Filipinos in Rural Hawaii

Author : Robert N. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Filipinos in Rural Hawaii written by Robert N. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hamakua Hero

Author : Patsy Y. Iwasaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573063210
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Hamakua Hero written by Patsy Y. Iwasaki and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Katsu Goto, a Japanese man who moved to Honokaa, Hawaii, in 1884 to seek his fortune. After three years as a contract laborer on a sugar plantation, Goto became the first Japanese store owner in Honokaa and a respected member of the community, but in 1889, Goto was found lynched after being accused of causing unrest among the laborers that led to the burning of a sugarcane field.

Working in Hawaii

Author : Edward D. Beechert
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824808907
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Working in Hawaii written by Edward D. Beechert and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Japanese Conspiracy

Author : Masayo Duus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520204859
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Conspiracy written by Masayo Duus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic tale of how a little-remembered strike in Hawaii fanned the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and, the author argues, ultimately led to the infamous Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924.

Cane Fires

Author : Gary Okihiro
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439907048
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Cane Fires written by Gary Okihiro and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II.

Sugar Changed the World

Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536406962
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Sugar Changed the World written by Marc Aronson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the panoramic story of the sweet substance and its important role in shaping world history.

All I Asking for Is My Body

Author : Milton Murayama
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824811723
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book All I Asking for Is My Body written by Milton Murayama and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1988-05-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Afterword by Franklin S. Odo: The most important feature of Milton Murayama's brilliant All I Asking for Is My Body is the quality of the storytelling. It deserves thorough discussion and criticism among literary professionals and students. The work has a further genius, however, in its evocation of several major topics in modern Hawaiian history, specifically during the 1930s, the decade before United States involvement in World War II. I suggest that Murayama’s novel provides us with valuable insights into the worlds of language, sugar plantation history, and the second-generation Japanese Americans, the nisei. . . . Critic Rob Wilson noted: “Part of the accomplishment of the novel is that the language ranges from the vernacular to the literate and standard, and so reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Hawaii.” In the novel, Murayama uses standard English and pidgin. In real life, the narrator Kiyo explains, “we spoke four languages: good English in school, pidgin English among ourselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks.” The wonder is that Murayama emerged using any one of the languages well. For most, that experience proved to be an insuperable barrier to good creative writing. . . . All I Asking for Is My Body is the most compelling work done on the Hawaii nisei experience. Murayama understood his theme to be “the Japanese family system vs. individualism, the plantation system vs. individualism. And so the environments of the family and the plantation are inseparable from the theme.” Fortunately for us as readers, however, he understood that the story was the key ingredient; that anything less would simply add to the sociological study of the plantation and the Japanese family in Hawaii.