Fiji : a place called home / / Daryl Tarte
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| Autore: |
Tarte Daryl
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| Titolo: |
Fiji : a place called home / / Daryl Tarte
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| Pubblicazione: | ANU Press, 2014 |
| Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014 | |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 996.11 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fijians - Australia |
| Soggetto geografico: | Fiji Politics and government |
| Fiji Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | politics |
| military coup | |
| race relations | |
| fiji | |
| Copra | |
| Fijians | |
| Ratu | |
| Suva | |
| Taveuni | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Prologue: The Early Days; Part One Taveuni: The Colonial Period; 1. People Along the Road; 2. The Old Home; 3. The Plantation; 4. The Young Overseer; 5. Island Life; 6. Marriage; 7. An Array of Characters; 8. Sale of the Plantation; 9. Farewell Taveuni; Part Two Greater Fiji: Life In The Nation; 10. Sugar; 11. Tourism; 12. Commerce and Industry; Interlude: A Fijian Delicacy-Balolo; 13. Diplomacy; 14. Politics and Leadership; Interlude: A Conversation of Spirits; 15. Sports; Interlude: China Rose; 16. Clubs |
| Interlude: Rotary-Service Above Self17. Religion; Interlude: The Veli-Fiji's Hairy Myth; 18. The Underprivileged; 19. Media: The Voice of the People; 20. Rumblings of Discontent; Interlude: Reflections on Coups; 21. Women: The Real Mother Lode; 22. Islands; 23. In Search of a Soul; 24. Conclusion | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Daryl Tarte writes emotively, in great detail, about his personal experience of growing up on a remote island during the colonial era, when races were segregated, and white people lived an elite existence. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fiji |
| ISBN: | 9781925022056 (ebook) |
| 9781925022049 (paperback) | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910132293503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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