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Title Islands, islanders, and the world : the colonial and post-colonial experience of Eastern Fiji / Tim Bayliss-Smith ... [and others] ; with contributions from Muriel Brookfield
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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 W'PONDS  996.11 Bay/Iia  AVAILABLE
 MELB  996.11 ISL-B  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge human geography
Cambridge human geography.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- list of tables -- Foreword: the MAB Programme and the Eastern Fiji Project G. Glaser -- Editorial note -- 1. On the study of islands, people and events -- 2. The island landscape -- 3. Capitalism and colonialism in the periphery -- 4. Physical and economic externalities and their impact -- 5. Vulnerability in a changing society -- 6. Pampered periphery? -- 7. Villages of adaptation: Batiki and Kabara -- 8. Adaptation or stagnation? the case of Koro -- 9. Villages of change: Taveuni and Lakeba -- 10. Regional development for an island periphery -- 11. Island studies and geography -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Analysis Eastern Fiji Economic development, history
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 297-318
Subject Human geography -- Fiji.
SUBJECT Fiji -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115022
Fiji -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011004167
Author Bayliss-Smith, Tim.
LC no. 88001372
ISBN 052126877X