Hawaii, America's Sugar Territory, 1898-1959

• Author(s): Howard Brett Melendy, Rhoda E. A. Hackler,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 339
• ISBN_10: 0773479988
  ISBN_13: 9780773479982
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) , History / Oceania ,

Description:... This study is a definitive text on Hawaii's territorial period, relying primarily on archival materials. It stresses the Territory's importance to West Coast defense and the islands' unique sugar and pineapple economy dependence upon support by the federal government. It also examines how local problems such as land ownership and racial diversity, often created bitter dissension.