The first section traces the development of Hawaii's economy from the moneyless, sharing, tribute, and barter system of the native culture to a plantation economy dominated by the Big Five. In the second section, Hitch, an expert on the state until his death in 1989, describes the further developmen
The first section traces the development of Hawaii's economy from the moneyless, sharing, tribute, and barter system of the native culture to a planta...