| Edition |
[New ed.]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 445 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-427) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Papua New Guinea at twenty-five -- Port Moresby and the bush: Papua New Guinea's first post-independence decade -- Political style in modern Melanesia -- Micronationalism in Papua New Guinea -- The Political Education Programme -- Class, ethnicity, regionalism and political parties -- Decentralisation: constitutional form and political reality -- Decentralisation: two steps forward, one step back -- (Re?)Discovering Chiefs: Traditional authority and the restructuring of local-level government in Papua New Guinea -- The PNGDF in troubled times -- The military factor in the events of March 1997 -- Challenging the State -- The Bougainville Crisis -- 'Mutual respect, friendship and cooperation'? The Papua New Guinea-Indonesia border and its effect on relations between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia -- From promise to crisis: a political economy of Papua New Guinea -- State, society and governance: A Philippines-Papua New Guinea comparison -- Nugget, Pike, et al.: The role of the Reserve Bank of Australia in Papua New Guinea's decolonisation -- Nationalism and Papua New Guinea writing. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This volume brings together a number of papers written by the author between 1971 and 2001 which address issues of political and economic development and social change in Papua New Guinea. |
| Subject |
Papua New Guinea -- Politics and government -- 1975-
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Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Papua New Guinea. (OCoLC)fst01212610
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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| Other Form: |
Print version: May, Ronald James. State and society in Papua New Guinea. [New ed.]. Canberra, ACT : Australian National University E Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)58919299 |
| ISBN |
9781920942052 (electronic bk.) |
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192094205X (electronic bk.) |
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1920942068 |
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9781920942069 |
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