Missions and empire
Missions and empire [electronic resource] /
Norman Etherington, editor.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 332 p.)
- The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series .
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude: the Christianizing of British America / Eliga H. Gould -- An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter -- Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester -- Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker -- Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock -- 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths -- Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock -- Language / Paul Landau -- New religious movements / Rober Edgar -- Anthropology / Patrick Harries -- Education and medicine / Norman Etherington -- Decolonization / David Maxwell.
1429421681 (electronic bk.) 9781429421683 (electronic bk.)
BV2420 / .M57 2005eb
266/.02341
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude: the Christianizing of British America / Eliga H. Gould -- An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter -- Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester -- Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker -- Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock -- 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths -- Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock -- Language / Paul Landau -- New religious movements / Rober Edgar -- Anthropology / Patrick Harries -- Education and medicine / Norman Etherington -- Decolonization / David Maxwell.
1429421681 (electronic bk.) 9781429421683 (electronic bk.)
BV2420 / .M57 2005eb
266/.02341