Islands, islanders, and the world : the colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji
The authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of colonial and post-colonial experience in Fiji.
Print Book, English, 1988
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1988
History
xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521268776, 052126877X
17439649
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations
list of tables
Foreword: the MAB Programme and the Eastern Fiji Project G. Glaser
Editorial note
1. On the study of islands, people and events
2. The island landscape
3. Capitalism and colonialism in the periphery
4. Physical and economic externalities and their impact
5. Vulnerability in a changing society
6. Pampered periphery?
7. Villages of adaptation: Batiki and Kabara
8. Adaptation or stagnation? the case of Koro
9. Villages of change: Taveuni and Lakeba
10. Regional development for an island periphery
11. Island studies and geography
Appendix
References
Index