Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji

by Richard Bedford, Harold C. Brookfield, Tim Bayliss-Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment',...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001E6WIUO
• ISBN13: 9780521268776
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"