{"product_id":"cooling-the-tropics-9781478019190","title":"Cooling the Tropics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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 \u003ci\u003eCooling the Tropics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCooling the Tropics\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating and thoughtful. . . . Recommended. General readers and advanced undergraduates through faculty.\" -- F. Ng * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCooling the Tropics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Helene Brembeck * Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Contributing to a rich, contemporary conversation of critical ruminations on materiality, the elements, and questions of race and indigeneity, \u003ci\u003eCooling the Tropics\u003c\/i\u003e pushes readers to think about how indigeneity is shaped in colonial discourses. … This well researched book will fascinate and keep readers on the hook.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jen Rose Smith * Society and Space *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i Usage  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Feeling Cold in Hawai‘i  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Prehistory of the Artificial Cold in Hawai‘i  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vice, Virtue, and Frozen Necessities in the Sovereign City  47\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Ice Local: Technology, Infrastructure, and Cold Power in the Kalākaua Era  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cold and Sweet: The Taste of Territorial Occupation  91\u003cbr\u003e 5. Local Color, Rainbow Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Hawaiian Shave Ice  113\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Thermal Sovereignties  137\u003cbr\u003e Notes  147\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  205\u003cbr\u003e Index  233","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409010467159,"sku":"9781478019190","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019190.jpg?v=1730505079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cooling-the-tropics-9781478019190","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}