01341 2200193 4500 0195542231 372491 eng Lightning meets the West Wind LIV the Malaita massacre Roger M. Keesing, Peter Corris Melbourne Oxford university press 1980 219 p. photogr. 23 cm In october 1927 William Bell, colonial government representative on Malaita, in the Solomon islands, was murdered, while collecting taxes, and his party of native police massacred. Bell was an Australian, a towering figure in the pacification of the wildest island in the Pacific, and his murder by the kwaio warrior leader Basania was the climax of a confrontation betwwen two trong men and two opposing ways of life, as Basiana and his followers, in the face of a pervasive threat to their ancestral way of life, resolved to challenge the power of Empire by killing its most forceful representative. Massacres Salomon|Malaita, (île) Malaita (Salomon ; île) Histoire 1900-1945 Keesing Roger M. Auteur Corris Peter BB BB 00169224 MAA 00169224 2019-05-18 00:00:00 1 LIV SPE