The Fijian Colonial Experience: A study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II

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 institut...

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Main Author: J. MacNaught, Timothy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: ANU Press 2016
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