The Fijian colonial experience a study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II

Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their own language and through culturally congenial authority structures and institut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Macnaught, Timothy J., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, Australia : ANU Press 2016
[2016]
Colección:Open Access e-Books
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. New white men without knowledge
  • Chapter 2. The assault on land rights
  • Chapter 3. The erosion of hereditary privilege
  • Chapter 4. The new politics of chiefly power
  • Chapter 5. The continuities of village life and politics
  • Chapter 6. Apolosi R. Nawai and the Viti Company
  • Chapter 7. The vein of discontent
  • Chapter 8. Compromise for a multiracial society
  • Chapter 9. The dilemmas of development
  • Chapter 10. Epilogue: rendezvous with the modern world.