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Zusatztext " Braided Waters represents the first deeply researched history of Molokai (or Moloka‘i), whose enigmatic history fully merits the supple treatment Graham gives it." Informationen zum Autor Wade Graham is the author of Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World and American Eden ! a cultural history of gardens in America. He teaches urban and environmental policy at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy. Klappentext "In his new and extensively researched history of Hawai'i's often marginalized yet fought-over 'middle island!' Wade Graham opens a window to 'a place of remarkable endurance! resistance! and cultural resilience.' Graham skillfully demonstrates how control over water has been at the center of Molokai's ecological! economic! social! and political history both in the precontact Polynesian period and in the even more dramatic changes of the past two centuries. The story of Molokai is! moreover! the larger story of the Hawaiian Islands. Graham's book deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in Hawaiian and Polynesian history."—Patrick V. Kirch! Emeritus Professor of Anthropology! University of California! Berkeley Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
