Wade Graham Molokai Oceanic History Books sku-619153095

Wade Graham's Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii is an Oceanic History Books hardcover in the Western Histories series (#11), edition 1. It traces more than a thousand years of repeated settlement on Molokai, from the first Polynesians through contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to the present.

Graham examines how control of resources, especially water, and environmental variation have shaped Hawaii's social and economic history. He also considers how human-caused environmental degradation reshapes societies. The study compares Polynesian and modern eras, arguing that the interaction of place and cultural patterns can produce similar social and environmental outcomes, a pattern it calls historical isomorphism with implications for global environmental history.

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