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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Main Author: Hobart, Hiʻilei Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Elements (Duke University Press)
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Online Access:CONNECT