Carol A. MacLennan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839499
- eISBN:
- 9780824871536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839499.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter explores the origins of the early sugar business in Hawaiʻi and the landscape that had formed part of this history. It starts with a tour of the inhabited islands in the 1840s and 1850s, ...
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This chapter explores the origins of the early sugar business in Hawaiʻi and the landscape that had formed part of this history. It starts with a tour of the inhabited islands in the 1840s and 1850s, describing the diversified economy that sustained its population of primarily Hawaiians, and a few foreigners, with food and goods. Prior to its industrial era there was a mixed Hawaiian economy largely based on a diversified mix of subsistence and export agriculture. This is the landscape that disappeared as sugar claimed its territory. The chapter then turns to the first sugar ventures and explores their early failures, successes, and relationship with the emerging constitutional government.Less
This chapter explores the origins of the early sugar business in Hawaiʻi and the landscape that had formed part of this history. It starts with a tour of the inhabited islands in the 1840s and 1850s, describing the diversified economy that sustained its population of primarily Hawaiians, and a few foreigners, with food and goods. Prior to its industrial era there was a mixed Hawaiian economy largely based on a diversified mix of subsistence and export agriculture. This is the landscape that disappeared as sugar claimed its territory. The chapter then turns to the first sugar ventures and explores their early failures, successes, and relationship with the emerging constitutional government.
