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Scarr, Deryck, Editor. More Pacific Islands Portraits
No full textTagupa William E. H. Scarr, Deryck, Editor. More Pacific Islands Portraits. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°63, tome 35, 1979. pp. 152-153
Evidence, ideology and miscalculation : public opinion and the 1987 military coups in Fiji
No full textScarr Deryck. Evidence, ideology and miscalculation : public opinion and the 1987 military coups in Fiji. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 92-93, 1991-1-2. pp. 69-88
Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji
No full textDr Parke’s monograph examines how Fijians, especially in western areas of Fiji, currently understand and explain the origins and development of the social and political divisions of late pre-colonial traditional Fijian society. It assesses the reasoning, consistency and, where possible, the historical accuracy of such understandings. The oral history research which forms the backbone of the study was conducted in either standard Fijian or one or other of the western Fijian dialects with which Dr Parke was familiar.
The period on which the monograph concentrates is the two centuries or so immediately prior to the Deed of Cession on 10 October 1874. A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. The volume will be of interest to all archaeologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in Fiji. It will also be of wider interest to Pacific Studies scholars and those of British colonial history as well as historians with a wider interest in indigenous traditional histories and their role in governance today
More Pacific Islands portraits
No full textThis book, a worthy successor to the first Pacific Islands Portraits edited by the late W. Davidson and Deryck Scarr, tells the stories of more of the colourful characters. Islanders and expatriates, who lived in the Pacific islands during the past 150 years. This collection of thirteen essays deals with people with such differing views as Charles Saint Julian, the visionary who drew up constitutions through which he hoped island communities would become what the western world would consider civilised states; Apolosi R. Nawai, a messianic leader in Fiji who challenged established authority; C. M. Woodford, the naturalist who came to study nature hut finished as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate; Henry Nanpei who manipulated successive European overlords. These and others come to life in the pages of this book. There is much here for the Pacific historian hut others also will find entertainment and food for thought in these accounts
Campbell (I.C.) : A History ofthe Pacific Islands ; Scarr (Deryck) : The History of the Pacific Islands : Kingdoms of the Reefs
No full textAldrich Robert. Campbell (I.C.) : A History ofthe Pacific Islands ; Scarr (Deryck) : The History of the Pacific Islands : Kingdoms of the Reefs. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 78, n°291, 2e trimestre 1991. pp. 325-326
The majesty of colour : a life of Sir John Bates Thurston
No full textJohn Bates Thurston began life, he said, aboard a barque bound for India - as a 13-year-old apprentice in love with the sea. Some years later, marooned in the South Seas after a shipwreck, he elected to stay on in Fiji. From being Acting British Consul and cotton planter he rose to be Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the office he held up to his death in 1897. Dr Scarr has delved into diaries, private letters, official correspondence and newspapers to reconstruct the colourful life story of Thurston, one of the most personally compelling and historically significant figures in modern Pacific history. He succeeds in presenting him as utterly honest and forthright, touchy and arrogant, a man often between anger and laughter - above all, completely devoted to his adopted country and its people. At the same time he conveys something of the spell that Fiji cast over Thurston when he first went to the Pacific and which remained with him always. In this book, the first part of a 2-volume work, Thurston is at odds with his own emigrant society and its racist views. But as intimate and supporter of the chiefs he is, to the Fijian elite, Na Kena Vai - the Very Bayonet, or, by free translation, the Pilot Fish. The second volume of the biography, Viceroy of the Pacific, will be concerned with Thurston as architect of policy after the Cession of Fiji to Britain in 1874, and with his role as Governor and High Commissioner. I, the Very Bayonet will not only be valued highly by historians but also read with pleasure and probe by all lovers of the Pacific and of good biography.v.1. I, the very bayonet - v.2. Viceroy of the Pacifi
XLBlocks: a Block-based Formula Editor for Spreadsheet Formulas
No full textSpreadsheets are frequently used in industry to support critical business decisions. Unfortunately, they also suffer from error-proneness, which sometimes results in costly consequences. Experiments in the field of program education have shown that programmers tend to make fewer errors and can better focus on the logic of a program if they use a block-based language instead of a textual one. We hypothesize that a block-based formula editor could support spreadsheet users in a similar way. Therefore, we develop XLBlocks and conduct a think-aloud study with 13 experienced spreadsheet users from industry. Participants are asked to create and edit several formulas, using our block-based language. We then ask them to evaluate this editor using the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework. We found that for all dimensions the block-based formula editor received a better evaluation than the default text-based formula editor.Accepted author manuscriptSoftware Engineerin
Review of: 'A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time'
No full textNo abstract available.Review of: 'A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time' by Deryck Scarr. Pacific Historical Review. 73: (2004), 661-663
Wood Pulp and the Emergence of a New Industrial Landscape in Maine, 1880 To 1930
No full textBetween the 1880s and 1930s, investors developed over seventy pulp and paper mill sites to exploit the woods and inland waters of Maine. Authors John Clark and Deryck Holdsworth tracked the changing historical geographies of papermaking in Maine during this period through an analysis of data from Lockwood’s Directory, the industry’s leading monitor of investment. They also mapped mill sites, noting their changing capacity and shifts in product types as consumer needs evolved. Their work shows how the development of a railroad network helped facilitate a shift from smaller mills at coastal sites to larger mills at inland settings, which exploited water power from the state’s major rivers. This spatial shift, they argue, was also accompanied by an increasing portion of the ownership being controlled by out[1]of-state capital. John Clark, Data Visualization and GIS Librarian at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, is a contributing author to the Historical Atlas of Maine (2015). Deryck Holdsworth, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University, is the co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Canada, Vol. III: Addressing the Twentieth Century (1990). The authors would like to thank an anonymous reviewer as well as Professors Stephen Hornsby and Anne Knowles of the University of Maine for their careful reading and insightful critique of this pape
Degei's descendants : spirits, place and people in pre-cession Fiji /
No full textOnline resource; title from PDF title page (ANU, viewed September 4, 2014).Includes bibliographical references.Aubrey Parke: an enthusiastic amateur in Fiji? -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Maps -- Fijian society: the islands of Fiji (general) -- Overview of project -- The ideological sense of Vanua -- Understanding traditional Fijian society -- Factors affecting development and interaction -- The Yavusa: the ideal and the reality -- The diversity of Fijian polities -- Overview of chapters 8-10 Fijian polities in three areas in the Yasayasa Vakara -- Polities of Rakiraki Tikina -- Polities of West Vuda Tikina -- Polities of Nadi Tikina -- Polities of Nawaka Tikina -- Overview of chapters 12-13 polities of the Natu Yasawa: the Yasawa Group -- The Tikina of Naviti -- The Tikina of Yasawa -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography.JSTO
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