Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Report on the British Solomon Islands
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Solomon Islanders in World War II
Author: Anna Annie KwaiPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ‘outsider’ perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as ‘loyal’ helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiders’ perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the ‘Pride of our Nation’ monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders.
Colonial Reports - Annual
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.
International Intervention and Local Politics
Author: Shahar HameiriPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416896
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book advances an innovative approach to explain international interventions' uneven outcomes in given contexts, and harnesses this approach to examine three prominent case studies: Aceh, Cambodia and Solomon Islands. It is the first book comprehensively to discuss the rapidly growing literature on how interventions interface with target states and societies.
Tulagi
Author: Clive MoorePublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island’s facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners—one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese—and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1972-73
Author: J. PaxtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271014
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Colonial Reports--annual
Author: Colonialism, Maasina Rule, and the Origins of Malaitan Kastom
Author: David W. AkinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the island’s first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the book’s heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movement’s ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labor strike and massive civil resistance actions that overflowed government prison camps. David Akin draws on extensive archival and field research to present a practice-based analysis of colonial officers’ interactions with Malaitans in the years leading up to and during Maasina Rule. A primary focus is the place of knowledge in the colonial administration. Many scholars have explored how various regimes deployed “colonial knowledge” of subject populations in Asia and Africa to reorder and rule them. The British imported to the Solomons models for “native administration” based on such an approach, particularly schemes of indirect rule developed in Africa. The concept of “custom” was basic to these schemes and to European understandings of Melanesians, and it was made the lynchpin of government policies that granted limited political roles to local ideas and practices. Officers knew very little about Malaitan cultures, however, and Malaitans seized the opportunity to transform custom into kastom, as the foundation for a new society. The book’s overarching topic is the dangerous road that colonial ignorance paved for policy makers, from young cadets in the field to high officials in distant Fiji and London. Today kastom remains a powerful concept on Malaita, but continued confusion regarding its origins, history, and meanings hampers understandings of contemporary Malaitan politics and of Malaitan people’s ongoing, problematic relations with the state.
Western Pacific
Author: C. M. WoodfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solomon Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Solomon Islands and Their Natives
Author: Henry Brougham GuppyPublisher: London : S. Sonneschein, Lowrey
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description