Colonialism, development and independence : the case of the Melanesian islands in the South Pacific / [by] H.C. Brookfield.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1972.Description: xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 052108590X
- 9780521085908
- 320.9/93
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 320.993 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25031011 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218).
1. On colonialism and development -- 2. Colonial beginnings -- 3. Diffusion and establishment -- 4. High noon: Melanesia in a white man's world -- 5. Tremors from faraway convulsions -- 1905-1920 -- 6. The ills of mercantilism -- 7. Hard times and new beginnings -- 8. Trauma -- 1940-1946 -- 9. The Hasluck period and the new colonialism -- 10. The advance toward political independence -- 11. The deepening commercial colonization of Melanesia -- 12. The face of pluralism in Melanesia -- 13. Melanesian reaction -- 14. A view of the Third World -- 15. Perils and prospects -- Epilogue: toward an understanding of colonialism.
"This 1972 book takes Western Pacific island territories as a case study in the behavioural understanding of colonialism"--Publisher's website.