Machine derived contents note: List of figures; Preface; Note on conventions; 1. On colonialism and development; 2. Colonial beginnings; 3 Diffusion and establishment; 4. High noon: Melanesia in a white man's world; 5. Tremors from faraway convulsions - 1905-1920; 6. The ills of mercantilism; 7. Hard times and new beginnings; 8. Trauma - 1940-1946; 9. The Hasluck period and the new colonialism; 10. The advance toward political independence; 11. The deepening commercial colonization of Melanesia; 12. The face of pluralism in Melanesia; 13. Melanesian reaction; 14. A view of the Third World; 15. Perils and prospects; Epilogue: toward an understanding of colonialism; Statistical appendix; List of references; Index
Summary
"This 1972 book takes Western Pacific island territories as a case study in the behavioural understanding of colonialism. "--Publisher's website
