Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.
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Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x1; As New in manufacturer's shrink wrap. Nine essays on the lives of plantation workers, five of which focus on the South Pacific: Patterns of Resistance and the Social Relations of Production in Hawaii, by Edward Beechert; The Counterculture of Survival: Melanesians in the Mackay District of Queensland, 1865-1906, by Clive Moore; Samoan Plantations: The Gilbertese Laborers' Experience, 1867-1896, by Doug Munro and Stewart Firth; 'We Do Not Come Here to Be Beaten': Resistance and the Plantation System in the Solomon Islands to World War II, by Judith A. Bennett; and 'Nonresistance' on Fiji Plantations: The Fiji Indian Experience, 1879-1920, by Brij V. Lal. 343pp. Index.
