Download or read book Broken Waves written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] magisterial history of twentieth-century Fiji.... The historical research is thorough and scrupulous, and the presentation is lucid. Lal brings together a wealth of information, much of it previously unavailable and the earlier available materials often reframed in thought-provoking ways.... Perhaps its greatest strength is that is presents the history of modern Fiji as very complicated and multifaceted.” —The Contemporary Pacific Pacific Islands Monograph Series No.11 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Download or read book The History of Fiji written by Alfred G. Mayer and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the island groups in the outer Pacific none surpass the Fijis in their rare combination of beautiful scenery and interesting natives. The islands are upon the opposite side of the world from England, for the meridian of 180° passes through the centre of the group crossing the island of Taviuni... That dauntless old rover, Abel Jansen Tasman, discovered them in 1643 on his way from Tonga in the Heemskirk and Zeehaan and named them "Prince William's Islands" and "Heemskirk's Shoals." After this, they were all but forgotten until July 2, 1774, when Captain James Cook sighted the small island of Vatoa in the extreme southeastern end of the group. The natives fled into the forest upon the approach of his boat, and he contented himself by leaving a knife, some medals and nails in a conspicuous place. Finding many sea-turtles in the region, he named his land-fall "Turtle Island," and then departed from the Fijis never to return.
Download or read book Disturbing History written by Robert Nicole and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbing History focuses on Fiji’s people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island’s past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people’s histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji’s colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion. The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878–1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901–1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913–1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women’s resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji’s present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji’s interethnic and intraethnic relations.
Download or read book Fiji in the Pacific written by T. A. Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition of Fiji in the Pacific aims to provide students with an updated resource for their history and geography studies. Changes in this edition include more detail about the history of Rotuma and a move, where possible, away from a history of what Europeans were doing in Fiji, to a history of all the peoples of Fiji. Part 2: Geography of Fiji has been extensively reshaped and extended to cover specific topics in the Fiji School Leaving Certificate.
Download or read book Fiji s Times written by Kim Gravelle and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Fiji written by Ronald Albert Derrick and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji s Natural Heritage written by Paddy Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fiji's Natural Heritage" provides an introduction to the flora, fauna and ecology of the Fiji islands. First published in 1988, this new edition has been completely revised, expanded and redesigned. Written for the general reader as well as for the natural history enthusiast, the book provides a comprehensive overview of Fiji's rich biodiversity. The islands have a large number of endemic species. These and the introduced species are illustrated and described with their common, scientific and Fijian names given. Paddy Ryan's text is packed with biological facts and features, as well as many anecdotes detailing encounters with his subjects including the grey reef shark, the crested and the banded iguana, the fiddler crab, the frigate bird, and Fiji's national flower the tagimaucia.
Download or read book The Fijian Colonial Experience written by Timothy J. MacNaught and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 institutions. From the outset, the Fijian Administration was criticised as paternalistic and stifling of individualism. But for all its problems it sustained, at least until World War II, a vigorously autonomous and peaceful social and political world in quite affluent subsistence — underpinning the celebrated exuberance of the culture exploited by the travel industry ever since.
Download or read book On Fiji Islands written by Ronald Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission history By James Calvert written by Thomas Williams and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King and the People of Fiji written by Joseph Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji written by Debbie Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island nation of Fiji has some of the best beach scenes and activities for visitors. Lying to the east of Australia and the north of New Zealand, this island offers a variety of culture, opportunities, and traditions. It is one of the first places to celebrate the New Year every January, and its history stretches back millennia. This book explores Fiji's many aspects. Readers learn about its language, lifestyles, and religious beliefs and practices, as well as its varied history, helping readers understand its place in contemporary society.
Download or read book Mind Materiality and History written by Christina Toren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we become who we are? How is it that people are so similar in the ways they differ from one another, and so different in the ways they are the same? Christina Toren's theory of mind as not only a physical phenomenon, but an historical one, sets out to answer these questions by examining how the material world of objects and other people informs the constitution of mind in persons over time. This theory of embodied mind as a microhistorical process is set out in the first chapter, providing a context for the nine papers that follow. Questions explored include the way meaning-making processes reference an historically specific world and are responsible at once for continuity and change, how ritual informs children's constitution of the categories adults use to describe the world, and how people represent their relationships with one another and in so doing come to embody history. Mind, Materiality and History has direct relevance to current debates on the nature of mind and consciousness, and demonstrates the centrality of the study of children to social analysis. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars with an interest in anthropological theory and methodology, as well as those engaged in material culture studies.
Download or read book The Early Prehistory of Fiji written by Geoffrey Richard Clark and published by Anu E Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chalo Jahaji written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad
Download or read book A History of Fiji written by Fiji and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji written by Deryck Scarr and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some fifteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, voyaging people first reached the group of islands in the Pacific we now know as Fiji. Today, an independent state for thirteen years after nearly a century of British colonial rule, their homeland is shared by others besides those original Polynesian settlers, and its history reflects the circumstances of their arrival and involvement. Some fifteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, voyaging people first reached the group of islands in the Pacific we now know as Fiji. Today, an independent state for thirteen years after nearly a century of British colonial rule, their homeland is shared by others besides those original Polynesian settlers, and its history reflects the circumstances of their arrival and involvement. The original settlers lived in communication with Tonga and Samoa, invoking deified ancestors to control their environment, installing great chiefs who were themselves living gods, harvesting land and sea and startling their neighbours with their ferocity in battle. In the early nineteenth century the first European traders began to arrive, together with Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries: European residents increased in number, traders and cotton planters seeking to control land and labour, until in the early 1870s outside interference led to the failure of a new mixed race independent government and put the Islands into the hands of Britain. British rule in Fiji led to the introduction of an Indian labour component in the population to maintain a new sugar industry. Over the next hundred years this transformed both the economy and the demography of Fiji; for most of the present century Fiji's history has been dominated by Indians' demand for equal political rights, Fijians' desire to sustain an autonomous way of life, and Europeans' ambition to retain dominance. Since independence in 1970, consensus in the interests of nation-building has been a major goal.
