From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill : Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawaii's Premier Crop /

"From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai'i's sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC & S) to survive into the twenty-first century. The authors, both agricultural...

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Auteurs principaux: Jones, C. Allan (Auteur), Osgood, Robert V., 1941- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sugarcane industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Hawaii > Histoire.
Canne à sucre > Innovations > Hawaii.
Sugarcane industry > Hawaii > History.
Sugarcane > Technological innovations > Hawaii.
Hawaii.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Birth of an industry: to 1875
  • Sugar booms: 1876 to 1897
  • Industry growth and labor unrest: 1898 to 1929
  • Depression, war, federal legislation, science, and technology: 1930 to 1969
  • Drip irrigation and new disease resistant varieties save HC & S: 1970 to 2013.

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