Broken waves : a history of the Fiji Islands in the twentieth century

9780824814182
0824814185

xxii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

"Center for Pacific Islands Studies; School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii."
Col. maps on lining papers
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-395) and index

Introduction. Land and people ; The nineteenth century : road to cession ; Cession and its legacy
1. The second coming : 1900-1920. Fijians : shaking the tree ; Lala ; Taxation ; Trading ; Fijian labor laws ; Land and land reform ; European planters and federation ; Indians : girmit and free ; The 1910s : protest, war, and death ; Manilal Doctor ; Apolosi Nawai ; World War I ; Influenza
2. The foundations challenged : 1920-1939. Population and its politics ; Fijian society : questions and problems ; Viti Cauravou ; From Indians to Indo-Fijians ; The 1920 strike ; Company and kisan : round one ; Education ; Electoral representation ; Land and land tenure ; The colonial wrld
3. For king and country : 1939-1959. War ; The war in Nadi ; For king and country ; Company and kisan : round two ; Native land and Fijian affairs ; The politics of the Deed of Cession ; Race relations in the 1950s ; War in Malaya ; Social change ; Education
4. Winds of change : 1959-1969. The 1959 strike ; Company and kisan : round three ; Commissions of inquiry ; Toward self-government ; The 1965 Constitutional Conference ; Elections and by-elections ; The end of an era
5. The center cannot hold : 1970-1987. The 1970s : tentative honeymoon ; The Street Commission and the constitution ; The issue of land yet again ; The politics of balance ; Butadroka, racism, and the elections ; The 1980s : new wines in old bottles ; A government of national unity ; 1982 : western regionalism, elections, and aftermath ; 1982-1987 : consolidation and fragmentation ; Fiji Labour Party, coalition, and campaign
6. Things fall apart : the 1987 crisis. Coalition government ; The rise of taukei militancy ; The coup and a week after ; Coalition and other reactions ; Seeking a constitutional solution ; The September coup and the birth of the Fiji Republic ; The causes of the coup ; The principal players
7. Broken waves
Appendix. Population and trade statistics

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