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Miller, Nicholas B. ORCID: 0000-0002-4037-642X (2023). Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters. In: Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, pp. 177-213. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031085369

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Abstract

Between 1874 and 1898, the year in which the United States took control of the Hawaiian islands, monocultures of sugar and rice supplanted diversified small-scale crop cultivation, Asian and European indentured laborers replaced Native Hawaiians as the majority population, and the lands given over to sugar grew more than tenfold. The role of Chinese sugar planters in this process has been largely ignored. To rectify this gap in the research, this chapter (i) provides the political, legal, demographic, and economic background to the Reciprocity Treaty of 1874; (ii) describe how three Chinese merchants turned to sugar after 1874; (iii) offers an an extended analysis of the largest labor rebellion to occur in Hawai‘i prior to the overthrow of the monarchy, which took place at a Chinese-run plantation on the Island of Hawai‘i. This chapter's methodological contribution is to exhibit the core complexity of plantation Hawai‘i as a context wherein processes of plantation colonialism intersected with older patterns of defensive elite modernization and extractive, trade, missionary, legal, and settler colonialism. The configuration of plantation colonialism in Hawai‘i thus encompassed endogenous and exogenous factors.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Miller, Nicholas B. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4037-642X UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Le Petitcorps, Colette UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Macedo, Marta UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Peano, Irene UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-703195
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-08537-6_8
Title of Book:	Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives
Series Name:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Page Range:	pp. 177-213
Number of Pages:	370
Date:	2023
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	Cham
ISSN:	2635-1633
ISBN:	9783031085369
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 6: Geschichte > Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte und Neueste Geschichte
Subjects:	Geography and history
Funders:	European Union, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Projects:	Migrating Knowledge: The Global Knowledge Networks of German Medic, Botanist and Migration Commissioner Wilhelm Hillebrand in Hawai‘i (1821-1886), MIGKNOW, 889078
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70319