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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Macnaught, Timothy J. (Timothy John), 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2016]
Series:Open Access e-Books
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Subjects:
British > Fiji > History.
Britanniques > Fidji > Histoire.
Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
Australasian and Pacific history.
Fiji.
History.
Humanities.
Melanesia.
Oceania.
Regional and national history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
British.
Colonial influence.
Fiji > History.
Fiji > Colonial influence.
Fidji > Histoire.
Australian
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New white men without knowledge
  • The assault on land rights
  • The erosion of hereditary privilege
  • The new politics of chiefly power
  • The continuities of village life and politics
  • Apolosi R. Nawai and the Viti Company
  • The vein of discontent
  • Compromise for a multiracial society
  • The dilemmas of development
  • Epilogue: rendezvous with modern world.

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