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Colonialism, Maasina rule, and the origins of Malaitan kastom /
This work is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands' Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the islands first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the text'...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa : University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Pacific islands monograph series ;
no. 26. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This work is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands' Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the islands first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the text's heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 527 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824838157 0824838157 9780824870874 0824870875 |