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Although little remains of Hawai'i's plantation economy, the sugar industry's past dominance has created the Hawai'i we see today. Many of the most pressing and controversial issues-urban and resort development, water rights, expansion of suburbs into agriculturally rich lands, pollution from herbicides, invasive species in native forests, an unsustainable economy-can be tied to Hawai'i's industrial sugar history.Sovereign Sugar unravels the tangled relationship between the sugar industry and Hawai'i's cultural and natural landscapes. It is the first work to fully examine the complex tapestry of socioeconomic, political, and environmental forces that shaped sugar's role in Hawai'i. While early Polynesian and European influences on island ecosystems started the process of biological change, plantation agriculture, with its voracious need for land and water, profoundly altered Hawai'i's landscape. MacLennan focuses on the rise of industrial and political power among the sugar planter elite and its political-ecological consequences. The book opens in the 1840s when the Hawaiian Islands were under the influence of American missionaries. Changes in property rights and the move toward Western governance, along with the demands of a growing industrial economy, pressed upon the new Hawaiian nation and its forests and water resources. Subsequent chapters trace island ecosystems, plantation communities, and natural resource policies through time-by the 1930s, the sugar economy engulfed both human and environmental landscapes. The author argues that sugar manufacture has not only significantly transformed Hawai'i but its legacy provides lessons for future outcomes

Although little remains of Hawai'i's plantation economy, the sugar industry's past dominance has created the Hawai'i we see today. Many of the most pressing and controversial issues--urban and resort development, water rights, expansion of suburbs into agriculturally rich lands, pollution from herbicides, invasive species in native forests, an unsustainable economy--can be tied to Hawai'i's industrial sugar history. Sovereign Sugar unravels the tangled relationship between the sugar industry and Hawai'i's cultural and natural landscapes. It is the first work to fully examine the complex tapestry of socioeconomic, political, and environmental forces that shaped sugar's role in Hawai'i. While early Polynesian and European influences on island ecosystems started the process of biological change, plantation agriculture, with its voracious need for land and water, profoundly altered Hawai'i's landscape. MacLennan focuses on the rise of industrial and political power among the sugar planter elite and its political-ecological consequences. The book opens in the 1840s when the Hawaiian Islands were under the influence of American missionaries. Changes in property rights and the move toward Western governance, along with the demands of a growing industrial economy, pressed upon the new Hawaiian nation and its forests and water resources. Subsequent chapters trace island ecosystems, plantation communities, and natural resource policies through time--by the 1930s, the sugar economy engulfed both human and environmental landscapes. The author argues that sugar manufacture has not only significantly transformed Hawai'i but its legacy provides lessons for future outcomes.

Hawaiis öko-industrielles Erbe besteht in einer Landschaft, die beständig von der Zuckerrohrproduktion verändert wurde. Seit 1850 setzten amerikanische und europäische Kapitalisten in großem Maßstab die technologischen Errungenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts ein, nutzten die Boden- und Wasserpolitik der Regierung von Hawaii und setzten einen ökologischen Wandel in Gang, der die industrielle Kontrolle über die Ökosysteme außerhalb des Zuckerrohranbaus verstärkte. Gegenstand des Beitrags sind die Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Natur und Industrie, die um 1920 in einer industriellen Zuckerökologie kulminierten, die Landschaften, Politik und Sozialleben auf Hawaii dominierte. ; Hawai'i's eco-industrial heritage is a landscape permanently altered by sugar cane production. Beginning in 1850 American and European-based capitalists drew heavily from global technological advances of the nineteenth century, rapidly exploited the land and water policies of the native Hawaiian government, and set in motion environmental change that eventually increased industrial control over non-sugar cane ecosystems. This article exams the nature-industry exchange which culminated by 1920 in an industrial sugar ecology that dominated landscapes, politics, and social life in Hawaii.

Hawaiis öko-industrielles Erbe besteht in einer Landschaft, die beständig von der Zuckerrohrproduktion verändert wurde. Seit 1850 setzten amerikanische und europäische Kapitalisten in großem Maßstab die technologischen Errungenschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts ein, nutzten die Boden- und Wasserpolitik der Regierung von Hawaii und setzten einen ökologischen Wandel in Gang, der die industrielle Kontrolle über die Ökosysteme außerhalb des Zuckerrohranbaus verstärkte. Gegenstand des Beitrags sind die Austauschbeziehungen zwischen Natur und Industrie, die um 1920 in einer industriellen Zuckerökologie kulminierten, die Landschaften, Politik und Sozialleben auf Hawaii dominierte. (ICEÜbers)

Book reviewed in this article: The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers. W. K. Barger and Ernesto M. Rezo. Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation. Brjj V. Lai, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert, eds.