Download or read book My Colonial Fiji written by Beverley Margaret Angus and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hear the word Fiji and you are likely to think of turquoise waters, lush foliage and a year-round tropical paradise. But this island nation is more than a place to which to escape. Its fascinating history includes a brief background as to how Fiji became a British Crown Colony between 1874 and 1970, which period is overlapped by the monopoly of Fiji's sugar industry by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) of Australia between 1880 and 1973 when sugar was the mainstay of Fiji's economy.

Download or read book Fiji s Past on Picture Postcards written by Elsie Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mass Communication and Journalism in the Pacific Islands written by Michael McMillan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Get it Right Write it Tight written by Frederick T. C. Yu and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tourism in Pacific Islands written by Stephen Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism industries have been notably affected. In particular, they typically have a narrow resource base and a fragile and often vulnerable natural environment. While there is some research on islands and small states, there is a dearth of information on the South Pacific and very little research is being undertaken in the region compared to other geographical regions in the world. This volume brings together current work in Pacific Island tourism. In this collection, three main themes arise: Images of the South Pacific; Socio-economic Impacts of Tourism; and Pacific Island Countries and the Outside World. The first focus is on the question of image, namely, stereotypes of a destination held by tourists and potential tourists, the extent to which residents, for their part, really welcome visitors, and the role tourism might play in changing pre-established images. The second theme is tourism's impacts, notably the economic and socio-cultural effects of international tourism's intrusion in the region which, though often hotly debated, have attracted relatively little empirical research. The third focus is on the challenges of how PICs articulate with their external geo-political and physical environment. These involve existing relations with formal colonial centres, geographical isolation, the need for greater air access to the outside world and for more tourists, and the continuing threat to several PICs of global warming, which increased air travel will inevitably exacerbate. This text will be of interest to tourism students, researchers and academics in the fields of tourism, development studies and cultural studies.

Download or read book The Turtle and the Caduceus written by Professor David Brewster AM and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turtle and the Caduceus are metaphors for the impact of Western medicine (the Caduceus) upon a traditional Pacific island culture (the Turtle), through the history of a school which started training native medical practitioners 125 years ago. David Brewster, the former Dean of Fiji School of Medicine, tells the fascinating tale of how a devastating measles epidemic and pro-indigenous benign colonialism led the foundation of this unique school. Then, Rockefeller philanthropy helped to transform it into a regional institution with an excellent reputation. However, its evolution into a modern university medical school was hampered by local politics and internal dissensions related to ethnic strife between the indigenous and Indian populations of Fiji, which also resulted in four military coups with economic stagnation and migration of medical graduates. This cautionary tale has important lessons for the relatively neglected disciplines of Pacific island history and medicine.

Download or read book Pacific Islands Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics in Fiji written by Brij V. Lal and published by Institute for Polynesian Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race and Politics in Fiji written by Robert Edward Norton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the impact of race relations on politics in Fiji - examines the social structure of fiji, shows that the racial factor prevails in politics with regard to social class and economic interests, maintains that political participation might help in promoting social integration and in reducing the danger of racial conflict, and presents a comparison of patterns of race relations in fiji, Guyana, and Malaysia. Bibliography pp. 196 to 203, glossary, maps, photographs and statistical tables.

Download or read book Development Or Dependence written by Asesela Ravuvu and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Saturday Morning Fever written by Timothy Burke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Hong Kong Phooey" to "Jonny Quest", from Sid and Marty Krofft to Hanna-Barbera, brothers Kevin and Timothy Burke, who as kids watched plenty of television, celebrate all that made Saturday morning TV great. 158 photos, 8 in color.

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Fiji Society written by Fiji Society and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Around The World With Mark Twain written by Robert Cooper and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his alter ego, Mark Twain. The journey took him to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, and led to the resurrection of Twain as a celebrity. Equal parts travelogue, social history, and biography, Around the World with Mark Twain paints a decidedly different portrait of Clemens: a more tragic, darker figure who faced financial ruin and personal loss throughout his life. Around the World with Mark Twain delights while deepening our understanding of this magnificent personality.

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 Report of the Fiji Constitutional Conference 1970 written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fiji in Transition written by Brij V. Lal and published by School of Social a Outh Pacific. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Politics of Race written by William M. Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: