Islands, Islanders and the World by Tim Bayliss-Smith, Richar... - 9780521030083

Islands, Islanders and the WorldThe Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji\nAuthor(s): Tim Bayliss-Smith, Richard Bedford, Harold Brookfield, Marc Latham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521030083, 978-0521030083\nSynopsis\nFiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations.