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[New ed.]. |
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1 online resource (xii, 445 pages) |
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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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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 |
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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. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Politics and government -- 1975-
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Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1975-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
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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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AU@ 000026444126 |
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AU@ 000051590293 |
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AU@ 000059668030 |
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GBVCP 1008655066 |
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NZ1 12543460 |
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