Solomon Islands: Unity in Diversity — The End of a Dream?

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 82, Issue , 2006, Pages 171-197

  Sofield, Trevor H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Customary Land; Foreign Affair; Island State; Solomon Island; Village Committee

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103697192     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3826-7_11     Document Type: Chapter

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