Research Catalog

Title

The South Pacific / Ron Crocombe.

Author

Crocombe, R. G.

Publication

Suva, Fiji : IPS Publications, University of the South Pacific, 2008.

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Description

xx, 739 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

"The South Pacific is about the 28 islands, nations and territories of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Indigenous and external influences are creating new and unique arts, cultures, identities, societies, economies and politics of extreme diversity. Future trends are explored, but the main focus is on the present. After 100 years or more of control by mainly European nations, but also Japan and Indonesia, Pacific peoples are working out their destinies in a complex environment in which East Asia plays an escalating role. The book is an important contribution to understanding the Pacific, the Third World and the development debate. Because of the wealth of issues covered, the fascinating truths revealed and the simplicity of style, it will be welcomed by general readers as well as by serious scholars of the Pacific"--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Oceania > Social conditions
• Oceania > Economic conditions
• Oceania > Social life and customs
• Oceania > Politics and government
• Oceania > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Maps on end papers.
• On cover: Environment, history, society, culture, health, language, religion, education, information, economics, land & water, politics, governance, corruption, security, the Pacific way, regional and international relations, futures.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-722) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Parameters -- Place: environmental deterioration and enhancement -- People: moving and mixing -- Health: more lives and longer, but problematic fitness -- 2. Patterns -- Language: how many of today's 1,200 will survive? -- Society: networks of commitment: getting wider but shallower -- Culture: an evolving synthesis of unity in diversity -- 3. Perceptions -- Creativity: reconciling the soul with the wallet -- Belief: more choice and less certainty in religions, philosophies, values and ethics -- Education: guidelines from where and for what? -- Information: moulding and creating perceptions, power and wealth -- 4. Property -- Tenure: constraints and opportunities relating to land and water -- Production: from village subsistence to global markets -- Trade: selling services and sovereighty -- Restructuring: shrinking governments in stagnant economies -- 5. Power -- Government: traditional and colonial politics -- Independence: leadership from within -- Identity: seeking a Pacific way? -- Birthright: the politics of accident of birth -- first-born, first arrived races and the rising status of women -- Corruption: stemming the rot -- Governance: the nature and quality of national cohesion -- Coertion: more military, police and other security forces -- Regionalsim: cooperation, competition, conflict, and assimilation into bigger regions -- Globalism: being small in a big world -- 6. Prospects -- Futures: widening choices in the 21st century.

ISBN

• 9820201543 (hbk.)
• 9789820201545 (hbk.)
• 9789820203894 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 241301959
• SCSB-12529309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library