Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand—year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth—century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources—especially water—in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ...