From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai'i's Premier Crop For Educators later known as Liliuokalani

later known as Liliuokalani

only fragments of alii diaries have survived

but the following decades brought unprecedented economic pressures that reduced the number of plantations from twenty-seven in 1970 to only four in 2000

written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonālani

expanded into a commercial crop in the mid-1800s

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai'i's Premier Crop For Educators later known as LiliuokalaniFrom King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill by C. Allen Jones and Robert V. Osgood focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawaiis sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) to survive into the twenty first century. The authors, both agricultural scientists, offer a detailed history of the industry and its contributions, balanced with discussion of the enormous societal and environmental