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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macnaught, Timothy J., author.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiji--History.

Fiji.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) : maps.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2016

Acton, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"First published 1982 by the Australian Nation University."--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198)

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 30, 2016).

ISBN:

9781921934360

1921934360

OCLC:

945698327

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_612754