02959 am 22006613u 450 991013226870332120230621135950.01-925022-02-1(CKB)3710000000347202(EBL)3543955(OCoLC)884508174(SSID)ssj0001682821(PQKBManifestationID)16507984(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682821(PQKBWorkID)15037082(PQKB)11214993(MiAaPQ)EBC3543955(WaSeSS)IndRDA00056511(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31325(EXLCZ)99371000000034720220150907h20142014 fy 0engurm|#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe naturalist and his 'beautiful islands' Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific /David Russell LawrenceANU Press2014Canberra, Australia :Australian National University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: 9781925022032 Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-420).Preliminary pages; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. Early life and education; 2. Pacific journeys; 3. Commerce, trade and labour; 4. A naturalist in the Solomon Islands; 5. Liberalism, Imperialism and colonial expansion; 6. The British Solomon IslandsProtectorate: Colonialism without capital; 7. Expansion of the Protectorate 1898-1900; 8. The new social order; 9. The plantation economy; 10. The critical question of labour; 11. Woodford and the Western Pacific High Commission; Conclusion; BibliographyThis book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.EthnologySolomon IslandsNatural historySolomon IslandsColonial administratorsSolomon IslandsBiographySolomon IslandsDescription and travelnatural historysolomon islandsnaturalistasia pacificSolomon IslandsEthnologyNatural historyColonial administrators301.29935Lawrence David Russell891498MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQUkMaJRUBOOK9910132268703321The naturalist and his 'beautiful islands1991262UNINA