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Plants, Insects, and the Biological Management of American Empire: Tropical Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i (2019)

Wang, Jessica (Author)

History and Technology
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Pages: 203-236

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2019.1680143

DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2019.1680143

Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Empires of Knowledge
Language: English

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Tropical agriculture Technology Biological pest control Insect control Invasion biology; Invasive species Entomology Agriculture United States, colonies 20th century, early Hawaii (U.S.)

In the early Twentieth Century officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s experiment station in Honolulu and the territorial government’s Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry contemplated the agricultural tasks that they faced, they sought nothing less than wholesale biological management of the islands. Seed and plant introductions represented efforts to oversee botanical possibility, while quarantine and inspection regimes sought to contain the threat of issnvasive species. When unwanted insect travelers thwarted human oversight, the territorial government dispatched entomologists to distant places, particularly in other colonial regions of the world, to gather parasites that might combat insect pests. The different efforts to manage the island ecosystem in Hawai‘i reflected not just the biological basis of territorial rule, but also its embeddedness in intra-imperial, inter-imperial, and international relationships.

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