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Preparing a Nation? : The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea / Brad Underhill

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Pacific seriesPublisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraitsISBN:
  • 9781760466626
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781760466619. | Erscheint auch als: Preparing a nation : the new deal in the villages of Papua New Guinea. Druck-Ausgabe. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2024DDC classification:
  • 994 23/eng/20241015
LOC classification:
  • DU115
  • DU740.7
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Contents:
Introduction -- Part One: Australian postwar ambition for the Territory of Papua New Guinea ; 1. The impetus for the 'New Deal for Papua New Guinea': Australia's response to a unique postwar colonial circumstance ; 2. Provisional administration: 'we stopped them putting the clock back' ; 3. Administering the 'new deal' from the extreme centre ; 4. The Australian objective: understanding the hasluck development pyramid -- Part Two: Indigenous influence: local conditions and autonomous actions ; CASE STUDY: CHIMBU 5. Chimbu: Australia's new deal problem? ; 6. Highland labour scheme: Indigenous opportunity or Government solution? ; CASE STUDY: MILNE BAY 7. Milne Bay: The emergence of Indigenous autonomy ; 8. Indigenous advancement: only on the colonialist's terms ; CASE STUDY: MAPRIK 9. Sepik: 'If you see a European, don't call him masta' ; 10. Village rice development: Co-opting Indigenous enterprise ; CASE STUDY: NEW HANOVER 11. New anover: colonial control and Indigenous sociopolitical agency ; 12. Cooperatives and the hasluck pyramid at work in the villages of New Hanover ; CONCLUSION 3. The 'new deal' assessed: just rhetoric or the basis for iIndependence? ; Bibliography.
PPN: PPN: 1919909389Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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