LEADER 02606 am 22004573u 450 001 9910137134703321 005 20221206172951.0 010 $a1-921934-36-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000772809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4615206 035 $a(OCoLC)945698327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4615206 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11240750 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000772809 100 $a20160830h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#nnn||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Fijian colonial experience $ea study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II /$fTimothy J. Macnaught 210 1$aActon, Australia :$cAustralian National University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) $cmaps 225 0 $aOpen Access e-Books 225 0 $aKnowledge Unlatched 300 $a"First published 1982 by the Australian Nation University."--Copyright page. 311 $a1-921934-35-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) 327 $aChapter 1. New white men without knowledge -- Chapter 2. The assault on land rights -- Chapter 3. The erosion of hereditary privilege -- Chapter 4. The new politics of chiefly power -- Chapter 5. The continuities of village life and politics -- Chapter 6. Apolosi R. Nawai and the Viti Company -- Chapter 7. The vein of discontent -- Chapter 8. Compromise for a multiracial society -- Chapter 9. The dilemmas of development -- Chapter 10. Epilogue: rendezvous with the modern world. 330 $aIndigenous 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 institutions. From the outset, the Fijian Administration was criticised as paternalistic and stifling of individualism. But for all its problems it sustained, at least until World War II, a vigorously autonomous and peaceful social and political world in quite affluent subsistence -- underpinning the celebrated exuberance of the culture exploited by the travel industry ever since 607 $aFiji$xHistory 676 $a996.11 700 $aMacnaught$b Timothy J.$0966060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137134703321 996 $aThe Fijian colonial experience$92192355 997 $aUNINA