Cooling the Tropics by Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Ho... - 9781478016557
Duke University Press
Cooling the TropicsIce, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment\nAuthor(s): Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478016557, 978-1478016557\nSynopsis\nBeginning 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, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hi?ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawai?i to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, envt
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