Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of a Bougainville 1937-1991

by Douglas Oliver

Bougainville is seldom out of the news, yet how much do the press, the financial and mining world and the politicians understand events on that island? The Pacific's most damaging independence movement seems to operate amid claims and counter-claims, internal rivalry and a fog of deception. What do the BRA really want? More importantly, what do the islanders really want?

It is more than fifty years since Emeritus Professor Douglas Oliver...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824814347
• ISBN13: 9780824814342
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"