Rory Ewins
This 30,000-word paper surveys the academic literature on the 1987 Fiji coup. The original version, now out of print, was published in 1992 as no. 9 in the Regime Change and Regime Maintenance in Asia and the Pacific series by the Department of Political & Social Change, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. This version may be cited as: Rory Ewins, Colour, Class and Custom: The Literature of the 1987 Fiji Coup, 2nd ed., 1998, http://speedysnail.com/pacific/fiji_coup/
- Preface
- Pronunciation & Abbreviations
- 1: The Coup and its Explanations
- 2: The Racial Explanation
- 3: The Class Explanation
- 4: The Custom Explanation
- 5: Explanations Involving Specific Interest
- 6: Conclusions—Tradition as Smokescreen
- Notes
- References
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