The general's goose : Fiji's tale of contemporary misadventure / / Robbie Robertson
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| Autore: |
Robertson Robbie
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| Titolo: |
The general's goose : Fiji's tale of contemporary misadventure / / Robbie Robertson
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| Pubblicazione: | Acton, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Disciplina: | 996.11 |
| Soggetto topico: | Coups d'état - Fiji |
| Democracy - Fiji | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Fiji Politics and government |
| Fiji History 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Australian |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The challenge of inheritance -- The great turning -- Redux: The season for coups -- Plus ça change ...? -- Conclusion: Playing the politics of respect. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | His admirers said he was a charismatic leader with a dazzling smile, a commoner following an ancient tradition of warrior service on behalf of an indigenous people who feared marginalisation at the hands of ungrateful immigrants. One tourist pleaded with him to stage a coup in her backyard; in private parties around the capital, Suva, infatuated women whispered 'coup me baby' in his presence. It was so easy to overlook the enormity of what he had done in planning and implementing Fiji's first military coup, to be seduced by celebrity, captivated by the excitement of the moment, and plead its inevitability as the final eruption of long-simmering indigenous discontent. A generation would pass before the consequences of the actions of Fiji's strongman of 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka, would be fully appreciated but, by then, the die had been well and truly cast. The major general did not live happily ever after. No nirvana followed the assertion of indigenous rights. If anything, misadventure became his country's most enduring contemporary trait. This is Fiji's very human story. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The general's goose |
| ISBN: | 1-76046-128-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910220515003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
State, society and governance in Melanesia (Series)