Rural Isolation and Dual Cultural Existence : The Japanese-American Kona Coffee Community

• Main Author: Abe, David K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Religion and culture.; Historical sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319553030
• Physical Description: XI, 295 p. 24 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.

This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of the Japanese community in Kona....