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Cooling the Tropics : Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment /

"Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawai'i-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific...

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Autor principal: Hobart, Hiʻilei Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Feeling Cold in Hawai'i
  • A Prehistory of the Artificial Cold in Hawai'i
  • Vice, Virtue, and Frozen Necessities in the Sovereign City
  • Making Ice Local: Technology, Infrastructure, and Cold Power in the Kalākaua Era
  • Cold and Sweet: The Taste of Territorial Occupation
  • Local Color, Rainbow Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Hawaiian Shave Ice
  • Thermal Sovereignties.