Before skyscrapers, fast food and tourism ads, Hawaiʻi was already part of a global economy. Long before 1893, ships from across the world docked in Hawaiian ports as they carried sugar, rice and coffee grown on the islands.


Before skyscrapers, fast food and tourism ads, Hawaiʻi was already part of a global economy. Long before 1893, ships from across the world docked in Hawaiian ports as they carried sugar, rice and coffee grown on the islands.