Cooling the tropics : ice, indigeneity, and Hawaiian refreshment /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hobart, Hiʻilei Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Elements (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cold storage industry > Social aspects > Hawaii > 19th century.
Cold storage industry > Hawaii > History > 19th century.
Ice industry > Hawaii > History > 19th century.
Ice industry > Social aspects > Hawaii > 19th century.
Food habits > Hawaii > History > 19th century.
Americans > Hawaii > History > 19th century.
Entreposage frigorifique > Industrie > Aspect social > Hawaii > 19e siècle.
Entreposage frigorifique > Industrie > Hawaii > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Glace > Industrie > Hawaii > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Glace > Industrie > Aspect social > Hawaii > 19e siècle.
Habitudes alimentaires > Hawaii > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Ice industry
Food habits
Cold storage industry
Americans
Hawaii
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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