Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

256 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi--all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants ...

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