Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii 1835-1920
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0824808657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 213 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
hardcover with dust jacket
Excellent book on the life of the different ethnic groups. A Customer This book revives memories of times gone by. It covers a period of laborers working in the sugar plantations of Hawaii. A diverse group of people, coming together under hardships, overcoming adversity and language barriers. Mr. Takaki did an excellent combination of relating the days that made sugar King, and how i. Karen in NY said Interesting book on plantation life in Early Hawaii. My mother grew up on a sugar plantation in Hawaii. For me it was an interesting book about how the plantations were formed, how the nationalities were chosen to work the fields, how pidgin evolved. There were things that I already knew and things I found very surprising.. Enlightening Pau Hana is a scholarly, well-cited work that is as readable as a novel. It explores the rise of sugar plantations in Hawaii and the various waves of migrants brought over to labor in the cane fields. Other Hawaii history books have barely touched on this subject--that the migrants existed, that they carried