The Fijian Colonial Experience
Title | The Fijian Colonial Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. MacNaught |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2016-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1921934360 |
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.
The Fijian Colonial Experience
Title | The Fijian Colonial Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. Macnaught |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 197? |
Genre | Fiji |
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The Fijian Colonial Experience: A Study of the Neotraditional Order Under British Colonial Rule Prior to World War II.
Title | The Fijian Colonial Experience: A Study of the Neotraditional Order Under British Colonial Rule Prior to World War II. PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. MacNaught |
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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.
Islands, Islanders and the World
Title | Islands, Islanders and the World PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Bayliss-Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2006-11-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0521030080 |
The authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of colonial and post-colonial experience in Fiji.
Disturbing History
Title | Disturbing History PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Nicole |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2010-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824860985 |
Disturbing History focuses on Fiji’s people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island’s past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people’s histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji’s colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion. The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878–1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901–1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913–1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women’s resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji’s present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji’s interethnic and intraethnic relations.
The Colony of Fiji, 1874-1924
Title | The Colony of Fiji, 1874-1924 PDF eBook |
Author | Fiji |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Fiji |
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A handbook about the colony and its resources after 50 years of British rule.
Islands, Islanders, and the World
Title | Islands, Islanders, and the World PDF eBook |
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Pages | 323 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Fiji |
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