Preparing a Nation?: The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New Guinea

2024/06/04 by Brad Underhill · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

paper · doi:10.22459/pn.2024

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Abstract

Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea. To what extent did Australia prepare Papua New Guinea for independence? And what were the policies and the ideologies behind colonial development, implemented after World War Two? A key innovation of this book is to take these questions from

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