From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop 9780824854072

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai‘i’s sugar

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English Pages 232 [288] Year 2015

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop
9780824854072

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C. Allan Jones
Robert V. Osgood

Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Birth of an Industry— To 1875
2. Sugar Booms—1876 To 1897
3. Industry Growth and Labor Unrest—1898 To 1929
4 Depression, War, Federal Legislation, Science, and Technology—1930 To 1969
5. Drip Irrigation and New Disease Resistant Varieties Save HC&S— 1970 To 2014
Notes
Literature Cited
Index
About the Authors

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