Download or read book Fiji and Its Peoples written by Anthony Roger Haas and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 64 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 20th Century Fiji written by Stewart Firth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reefs, islands and friendly people, Fiji has all those things but much more besides including a fascinating history. This is first and foremost a book about people and their lives, but it is a history of Fiji as well, covering a century that took the country from colony to independence and from a dominion to republic. Excerpts from the Fiji Times, together with a comprehensive gallery of photographs, convey a sense of what the old Fiji was like and what it has become. No century has changed Fiji more tha the one just ended. This book tells the story of that century through the lives of the men and women who did most to shape Fiji, and who left their mark on the Fiji of today. Their names come from every walk of life, from the mightiest to the lowliest. This book was written not by one person or two, but by seventeen. Like the people they write about the authors come from across the ethnic and cultural spectrum of the country. Here, in what they have written, you will find not just the great political leaders of Fiji such Ram Sir Lala Sukuna, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and A.D. Patel, but the poets and artists, the businessmen and women, the trade unionists, the soldiers, the sports enthusiasts, the people of religion and those who offered their lives in service to the disadvantaged. This book is meant to record and honour their contribution, and in doing so to celebrate the nation itself.
Download or read book The People Have Spoken The 2014 Elections in Fiji written by Steven Ratuva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The September 2014 elections in Fiji was one of the most anticipated in the history of the country, coming after eight years of military rule and under a radically new constitution that introduced a system of proportional representative (PR) and without any reserved communal seats. The election was won overwhelmingly by FijiFirst, a party formed by 2006 coup leader Frank Bainimarama. He subsequently embarked on a process of shifting the political configuration of Fijian politics from inter-ethnic to trans-ethnic mobilisation. The shift has not been easy in terms of changing people's perceptions and may face some challenges in the longer term, despite Bainimarama's clear victory in the polls. Ethnic consciousness has the capacity to become re-articulated in different forms and to seek new opportunities for expression. This book explores these and other issues surrounding the 2014 Fiji elections in a collection of articles written from varied political, intellectual and ideological positions.
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 The King and the People of Fiji written by Joseph Waterhouse and published by London : Wesleyan Conference Office. This book was released on 1866 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji s Times written by Kim Gravelle and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook to Fiji written by Fiji and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Coup written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 19, 2000. Fiji's democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight's supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the People's Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. The process of healing and reconciliation, symbolised by the enactment of a new Constitution, unanimously approved by Parliament and blessed by the powerful Great Council of Chiefs, lies discarded, as winds of ethnic chauvinism sweep through the countryside, damaging the fragile fabric of multiculturalism that was carefully constructed by so many over many years. The economy is on the brink of collapse, investor confidence has vanished, and the best and the brightest are seeking succour on other shores. Fiji falls victim, yet again, to the prejudice and greed of a section of its people. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji. They were written while the gun was still smoking; personal, anguished reactions of people from all walks of life, concerned about a country they all love but deeply distressed by the developments there. They are first reactions. They will in time become essential building blocks for a larger interpretive framework of academic analysis about origins, processes and impacts. Straight from the heart, these memoirs will be remembered as the people of Fiji and their friends elsewhere contemplate the wreckage and ruin brought about by that act of madness in the month of May 2000.
Download or read book The King and People of Fiji Containing a Life of Thakombau with Notices of the Fijians Their Manners and Superstitions Previous to the Great Religious Reformation in 1854 written by Joseph WATERHOUSE and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiji History and Travel Guide written by Samuel Ash and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Fiji. Fiji travel guide, Fiji eBook and books, Fiji Summary, Fiji culture. Introduction: The Republic of the Fiji Islands is a multicultural island nation with cultural traditions of Oceanic, European, South Asian, and East Asian origins. Immigrants have accepted several aspects of the indigenous culture, but a national culture has not evolved. Commercial, settler, missionary, and British colonial interests imposed Western ideologies and infrastructures on the native peoples and Asian immigrants that facilitated the operation of a British crown colony. "Fiji History and Travel guide" provides you the full history
Download or read book The World and Its People written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The King and People of Fiji written by Joseph Waterhouse and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Joseph Waterhouse's work offers an excellent insight into the traditional Fijian way of life.
Download or read book Fiji and the Friendly Isles written by S E Scholes and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. E. Scholes provides an intriguing account of Fiji and the Friendly Isles that will transport readers to these exotic destinations. Rich in detail, this book offers a comprehensive view of the region's history, geography, and culture, as well as stunning descriptions of the area's natural beauty. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Pacific Islands, and for those who seek adventure, knowledge, or an escape to a magical place. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Culture and Architecture of the Indigenous People of Fiji written by Kaminieli Vuadreu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
