Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters: Honolulu and Its Age of Ice Importation

Hobart, Hi'ilei Julia

doi:10.1080/15528014.2016.1208337

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“…An example of the ice cube's capacity to translate to new cultural contexts from the early period is given by Hi'ilei Julia Hobart (2016) on the ice trade to Honolulu. In 1850, Honolulu received its first shipment from North America of cold, clear ice for public sale used to chill cocktails and other refreshments, much to the delight of the city's elite who found its refreshing qualities most agreeable.…”

Section: Normalizing and Translating Ice Cubes In New Contextsmentioning

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Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations

Brembeck

2023

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This essay is a humble attempt to shed some rays of light on the cultural history of the practice of using ice cubes in drinks, its past, present and to some extent future. Departing from the author’s travel documentation from trips to the US and examples from Sweden from the internet, literature, archives and interviews it aims to share reflections on the normalization and translatability to different cultural contexts of the use of ice cubes. It also provides a couple of examples of failed translations and some reflections on the future of ice cubes in an era of environmental crisis. Well aware that there are many stories to be told about ice cubes, the hope is that this essay will arouse interest and curiosity of this tiny object and its possibility to open up perspectives on our society and its history.

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Section: Normalizing and Translating Ice Cubes In New Contextsmentioning

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Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations

Brembeck

2023

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“…Cooling and notions of freshness have also been part of processes of colonialization, where westernized ideals have been imposed by changing taste preferences and commodity markets, upholding colonial orders (Freidberg 2010;Hobart 2016;Klakegg Sturland 2021). Furthermore, by controlling cooling through harvesting or mechanically producing, storing, and trading ice, control was exercised over nature and seasons (Schönach 2019: 16).…”

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The culture of cooling – an introduction

Marshall

Lyngø

2023

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“…mercury in fish, Egan, 2013). Engagement with histories of technology is productive: refrigeration obviously impinges on food history, but also the transportation and storage of medicine, and as Hobart (2016, 2022) has shown is part of the identity politics of race, imperialism and gender. Taking seriously the environments that we create , with air‐conditioning or central heating, is a rich seam for inter‐disciplinary work, particularly framing occupational health and medicine, architecture and urban planning, and pollution and toxicity (Borowy, 2021; Merleaux, 2021).…”

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Medicine in the field: Growing connections between environmental and medical history

Heggie

2023

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This article argues that Environmental History and History of Medicine are disciplines that are natural allies and productive partners; successfully working across the sub‐disciplines will be essential to understanding current and future crises, including climate change and pandemics. While it is relatively easy to find acknowledged intersections between histories of science and/or technology and of the environment, so far these are less systematic and substantial in the history of medicine. Partly this is because there are points of serious methodological and theoretical tension, but I argue that these can function as moments of contact and provocation. Most obviously Environmental History poses challenges to historians of medicine in terms of the scale of our work in both its chronological and conceptual reach, and how we incorporate the non‐human, and even the non‐biotic as historical actors. History of Medicine offers approaches to help environmental historians negotiate their relationships with science, in particular the balance between science as a subject of study or as a source of data. Both disciplines share the struggle of combining focused, heavily contextualised local histories with the pressing need for globalised and ‘big picture’ historical explanations. In this review I will outline the main historiographical challenges to working across these subdisciplines—particularly in terms of scale and focus—and then consider the most productive intersections of these fields before making recommendations for future collaborative work.

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Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters: Honolulu and Its Age of Ice Importation

Cited by 17 publications

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Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations

Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations

The culture of cooling – an introduction

Medicine in the field: Growing connections between environmental and medical history

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