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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821778203321

Titolo

Bougainville before the conflict / / edited by Anthony J. Regan and Helga M. Griffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : Pandanus Books, c2005

ISBN

1-74076-199-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xl, 566 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

ReganA. J (Anthony J.)

GriffinHelga-Maria

Disciplina

995.3

995.92

Soggetti

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 498-545.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; Bougainville's Early History: An Archaeological Perspective; The Geology of Bougainville; The Languages of Bougainville; An Introduction to Bougainville Cultures; Why do the People of Bougainville Look Unique Some Conclusions; Origins of Bougainville's Boundaries; German Colonial Rule in the Northern Solomons; The Pacification of Southern Bougainville 1900 30; Imperium in Imperio  The Catholic Church in Bougainville; 1914 Changing the Guard at Kieta; Between the Waitman's Wars 1914 42; Bougainville in World War II; Sources on Pre mining Bougainville

Post War Reconstruction in Bougainville Plantations Post 1960's Cocoa and Copra Production in Bougainville; The Panguna Mine; Torau Response to Change; Movements Towards Secession 1964 76; Shaping Leadership through Bougainville Indigenous Values and; The Bougainville Catholic Church and  Indigenisation; Buin Social Structure; We are Born Chiefs Chiefly Identity and Power in Haku Buka Island; Land for Agriculture  Silent...

Sommario/riassunto

This remarkable book brings together in one volume most aspects — geological, environmental, archaeological, ethnic, linguistic, ethnographic and historical - of one of the most beautiful island



groups of the Pacific, Bougainville.