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Colonialism, development and independence : the case of the Melanesian islands in the South Pacific / by H.C. Brookfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1972]Copyright date: ©1972Description: xvi, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521143888
  • 9780521143882
  • 052108590X
  • 9780521085908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.30995 22
LOC classification:
  • HC683
Contents:
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.
Summary: "This 1972 book takes Western Pacific island territories as a case study in the behavioural understanding of colonialism. "--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 325.30995 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A472828B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Digitally reprinted from the original in 2010.

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