Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Author:   Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   277
Publication Date:   16 December 2022
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Author:   Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781478016557


ISBN 10:   1478016558
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   16 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Note on ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i Usage  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Feeling Cold in Hawai‘i  1 1. A Prehistory of the Artificial Cold in Hawai‘i  21 2. Vice, Virtue, and Frozen Necessities in the Sovereign City  47 3. Making Ice Local: Technology, Infrastructure, and Cold Power in the Kalākaua Era  71 4. Cold and Sweet: The Taste of Territorial Occupation  91 5. Local Color, Rainbow Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Hawaiian Shave Ice  113 Conclusion: Thermal Sovereignties  137 Notes  147 Bibliography  205 Index  233

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"""Cooling the Tropics offers a compelling model for future research focused on the simultaneously sensorial, biopolitical, and ecological implications of colonialism’s thermal infrastructures."" -- Hsuan L. Hsu * The Senses and Society *"


"""Cooling the Tropics offers a compelling model for future research focused on the simultaneously sensorial, biopolitical, and ecological implications of colonialism’s thermal infrastructures."" -- Hsuan L. Hsu * The Senses and Society * ""Fascinating and thoughtful. . . . Recommended. General readers and advanced undergraduates through faculty."" -- F. Ng * Choice * “Cooling the Tropics is well worth reading. … With many revealing and fascinating examples, [Hobart] tells an engaging story of the American colonisation of Hawaii that is open, unfixed and challengeable.” -- Helene Brembeck * Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies *"


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Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University and editor of The Foodways of Hawaiʻi: Past and Present.

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