The Fijian colonial experience : a study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II / / Timothy J. Macnaught

• Autore: Macnaught Timothy J.
• Pubblicazione: Acton, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) : maps
• Disciplina: 996.11
• Soggetto geografico: Fiji History
• Note generali: "First published 1982 by the Australian Nation University."--Copyright page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198)
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Indigenous 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Fijian colonial experience
• ISBN: 1-921934-36-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910137134703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II