Cooling the Tropics
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Cooling the Tropics

Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cooling the Tropics

Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

About this book

Beginning 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, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawai?i's food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawai?i and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Note on ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i Usage
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Feeling Cold in Hawai‘i
  6. 1. A Prehistory of the Artificial Cold in Hawai‘i
  7. 2. Vice, Virtue, and Frozen Necessities in the Sovereign City
  8. 3. Making Ice Local: Technology, Infrastructure, and Cold Power in the Kalākaua Era
  9. 4. Cold and Sweet: The Taste of Territorial Occupation
  10. 5. Local Color, Rainbow Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Hawaiian Shave Ice
  11. Conclusion: Thermal Sovereignties
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index