Big-Men and Business Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands

• Autore principale: Finney, Ben R. (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: University of Hawai'i Press 2018
• Soggetti: Development studies
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the area's development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionari...