Missions And Empire

by Etherington, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780199253470
• ISBN10: 0199253471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The purpose of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive survey of the Empire from its beginning to end, to explore the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and to study the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose. They pursue themes that could not be covered adequately in the main series while incorporating recent research and providing fresh interpretations of significant topics. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Norman Etherington received his BA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He joined the History Department at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in 1968 and was subsequently appointed Reader in History. In 1989 he moved to the University of Western Australia taking up the position of Professor and Chair of History. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a past President of the Australian Historical Association, a Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a Member of the International Association for mission studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	x
List of Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
Norman Etherington
Prelude: The Christianizing of British America	19	(21)
Eliga H. Gould
An Overview, 1700--1914	40	(24)
Andrew Porter
Humanitarians and White Settlers in the Nineteenth Century	64	(22)
Alan Lester
Where the Missionary Frontier Ran Ahead of Empire	86	(21)
John Barker
Christian Missions and the Raj	107	(25)
Robert Eric Frykenberg
New Christians as Evangelists	132	(21)
Peggy Brock
`Trained to Tell the Truth': Missionaries, Converts, and Narration	153	(20)
Gareth Griffiths
Women and Cultural Exchanges	173	(21)
Patricia Grimshaw
Peter Sherlock
Language	194	(22)
Paul Landau
New Religious Movements	216	(22)
Robert Edgar
Anthropology	238	(23)
Patrick Harries
Education and Medicine	261	(24)
Norman Etherington
Decolonization	285
David Maxwell
Index	000