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Missions and empire [electronic resource] / Norman Etherington, editor. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xiii, 332 p. ; 24 cm. - The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series. . - The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series. .

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.


Available electronically via the Internet.

ISBN: 0199253471 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Missions, British--History.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Colonies--Religion.

Subjects--Index Terms: Imperialisme. Zending. 2.

Dewey Class. No.: 266/.02341