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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii 1835-1920
Pau Hana Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii 1835-1920 Author:Ronald Takaki Pau Hana is the first history of plantation life in Hawaii to describe the experiences of all the plantation laborers - Hawaiians, Chinese, Norwegians, Germans, Portuguese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and others. Based on original sources such as diaries, business records, oral histories, and work songs, Pau Hana recreates the world of plantat... more »ion Hawaii. Here is the story of the founding of the first plantation at Koloa and the development of the sugar industry, the migration of hundreds of thousands of workers to the islands, their day-to-day experiences in the fields and mills, the culture and community they created in the camps, and finally the first significant inter-ethnic strike in Hawaii.« less