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Law & Empire in the Pacific
. Ed(S): Merry, Sally Engle; Brenneis, Donald
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Paperback. Editor(s): Merry, Sally Engle; Brenneis, Donald. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 454.
Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South Asia. Both societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation complex in the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however, constructed vastly different legal relationships with the indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported workers also ... Read more
Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South Asia. Both societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation complex in the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however, constructed vastly different legal relationships with the indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported workers also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
SAR Press United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Series
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781930618251
SKU
V9781930618251
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