Bougainville before the conflict / edited by Anthony J. Regan and Helga M. Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Regan, A. J. (Anthony J.)

Griffin, Helga-Maria, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)--History.

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea).

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)--Politics and government.

Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 566 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Canberra : Pandanus Books, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This remarkable book brings together in one volume most aspects — geological, environmental, archaeological, ethnic, linguistic, ethnographic and historical - of one of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; Bougainville's Early History: An Archaeological Perspective; The Geology of Bougainville; The Languages of Bougainville; An Introduction to Bougainville Cultures; Why do the People of Bougainville Look Unique Some Conclusions; Origins of Bougainville's Boundaries; German Colonial Rule in the Northern Solomons; The Pacification of Southern Bougainville 1900 30; Imperium in Imperio The Catholic Church in Bougainville; 1914 Changing the Guard at Kieta; Between the Waitman's Wars 1914 42; Bougainville in World War II; Sources on Pre mining Bougainville

Post War Reconstruction in Bougainville Plantations Post 1960's Cocoa and Copra Production in Bougainville; The Panguna Mine; Torau Response to Change; Movements Towards Secession 1964 76; Shaping Leadership through Bougainville Indigenous Values and; The Bougainville Catholic Church and Indigenisation; Buin Social Structure; We are Born Chiefs Chiefly Identity and Power in Haku Buka Island; Land for Agriculture Silent...

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 498-545.

ISBN:

1-74076-199-5

OCLC:

475965899