Sugar Water: Hawaii's Plantation Ditches 9780824864507

Hawaii's sugar industry enjoyed great success for most of the 20th century, and its influence was felt across a bro

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English Pages 160 [207] Year 1997

Sugar Water: Hawaii's Plantation Ditches
9780824864507

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Carol Wilcox

Table of contents :
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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