Author: Keith Woodward
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192502220X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Keith Woodward has produced an inside account of the intricacies of official politics in the latter stages of the history of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, which will be essential reading for anyone interested in the colonial period of Vanuatu. Woodward spent 25 years in the New Hebrides (1953 to 1978) based in the British Residency and it is his long service which makes his memoir so informative and important. Following a fascinating and insightful description of Port Vila and the New Hebrides when he arrived in the 1950s, Woodward focuses the rest of his memoir on issues relating to the difficulties the British faced in convincing the French that the two powers should come to an agreement on decolonisation of the New Hebrides—that is, to establish a process of constitutional advancement leading ultimately to independence. — Howard Van Trease, Honorary Research Fellow, Emalus Campus, University of the South Pacific, Port Vila This is a highly original, evocative and engaging memoir which offers an insightful firsthand account of colonial administration, bilateral French and British relations, political change and decolonisation in Vanuatu. It addresses some lacunae in the historiography of Vanuatu and dispels a number of assumptions about French intentions there. It will be of great benefit to people interested in Vanuatu, and more broadly in political change in the Pacific, constitutional arrangements, decolonisation, French-British relations, and particularly the divergent colonial policies of France and the United Kingdom. — Gregory Rawlings, Anthropology, University of Otago
Author: C. B. Humphreys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107455561
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Originally published in 1926, this book was written to provide an 'account of some of the ethnological conditions of the Southern New Hebrides'. The text gives information on various aspects of life in Tanna, Anaityum, Futuna, Aniwa and Erromango. Whilst much of the content is undoubtedly dated, it allows a unique insight into the development of ethnology and its interaction with the South Pacific region. A detailed bibliography is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ethnology, anthropology and the South Pacific islands.
Author: Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317846583
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Clarence Blake Humphreys
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: John Gibson Paton
Publisher:
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: John R. Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317846591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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First published in 2005. Written as an account of the Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the New Hebrides in 1992-3 and 1927, this is one of the first detailed studies of the flora and fauna of these distant islands. Fully illustrated with maps and figures, this book describes the native Hebrideans and the reasons for their depopulation. The author, a biologist and zoologist, details the insect, avian and mammalian inhabitants of the islands and their behaviours.
Author: Frank Rennie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789070835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Hugh Morrison
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526156776
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
Author: Norma McArthur
Publisher:
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Category : Vanuatu
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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