A History of Fiji : volume one

vii, 250, xxviii pages : 26 cm. Contents: 1. The people 2. Discovery 3. The first Europeans 4. The new warfare 5. Native affairs, 1800-1840 6. Exploration, shipping and trade, 1800-1840 7. Native affairs, 1840-1849 8. Foreign affairs, 1840-1849 9. Cakobau's fall and restoration:1850 to Kaba (18550) 10.The Tongans 11. The growth of foreign interest in Fiji 12. The first offer of cession 13. The offer of cession declined 14. The confederacies of 1865 and 1867 15. The labour traffic 16. The American claims and the Polynesia company 17. The close of the 'sixties 18. The rush, the crash and the coup d'etat 19. The Cakobau government: I. The launching 20. II. In troubled waters 21. III. Wreck and salvage 22. The ad interim government, and cession, 23rd March to 10th October 1874 The deed of cession List of references Index List of maps: The Fiji group; Vanua Levu; the Rewa delta; Ovalau and adjacent islands; Viti Levu.