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The General's Goose : Fiji's Tale of Contemporary Misadventure.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461287
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The General's GooseDDC classification:
  • 996.11
LOC classification:
  • DU600.R33.R634 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- iTaukei pronunciation -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The challenge of inheritance -- 2. The great turning -- 3. Redux: The season for coups -- 4. Plus ça change …? -- Conclusion: Playing the politics of respect -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A generation would pass before the consequences of the actions of Fiji's strongman of 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka, would be fully appreciated but, by then, the die had been well and truly cast. The major general did not live happily ever after. No nirvana followed the assertion of indigenous rights. This is Fiji's very human story.
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Intro -- Preface -- iTaukei pronunciation -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The challenge of inheritance -- 2. The great turning -- 3. Redux: The season for coups -- 4. Plus ça change …? -- Conclusion: Playing the politics of respect -- Bibliography -- Index.

A generation would pass before the consequences of the actions of Fiji's strongman of 1987, Sitiveni Rabuka, would be fully appreciated but, by then, the die had been well and truly cast. The major general did not live happily ever after. No nirvana followed the assertion of indigenous rights. This is Fiji's very human story.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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