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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815464803321

Titolo

Coup : reflections on the political crisis in Fiji / / editors, Brij V. Lal with Michael Pretes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : Pandamus Books, c2001

ISBN

1-74076-076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : maps

Altri autori (Persone)

LalBrij V

PretesMichael

Disciplina

320.99611

Soggetti

Coups d'etat - Fiji

Political science

Fiji Politics and government 20th century

Fiji Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contents; Preface; Preface; 1 Fijicoup.com; 1 Fijicoup.com; 2 Indigenous Identity; 1. Fiji: The Gathering Storm; 2 Indigenous Identity; 2. Damaged Democracy; 3. Wandering Between Two Worlds; 3 An Historic View of Fiji; 3 An Historic View of Fiji; 4 Refections on the Civilian Coup in Fiji; 4 Refections on the Civilian Coup in Fiji; 5 An Analysis of the Current Political Crisis in Fiji; 5 An Analysis of the Current Political Crisis in Fiji; 6 Constitutional Order in Multi-Ethnic Societies; 6 Constitutional Order in Multi-Ethnic Societies

7 Thoughts on Fiji's Third Coup D'Etat; 7 Thoughts on Fiji's Third Coup D'Etat; 8 On Being Fijian; 8 On Being Fijian; 9 Outcasts of the Pacific; 9 Outcasts of the Pacific; 10 Race, Speight and the Crisis in Fiji; 10 Race, Speight and the Crisis in Fiji; 11 Peace in Fiji; 11 Peace in Fiji; 12 On Reconciliation; 12 On Reconciliation; 13 Two Countries Called Fiji; 13 Two Countries Called Fiji; 14 Living in Unusual Times; 1. Living in Unusual Tim

Sommario/riassunto

This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of the tragic events in Fiji from may 19, 2000, when the democratically elected multiracial government was hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George



Speight, and held hostage for fifty days.