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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