Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii Volume 11

by Wade Graham

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources--especially water--in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520298594
• ISBN13: 9780520298590
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"