Missions and Empire

Norman Etherington recieved 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.Professor Wm Roger LouisEditor-in-ChiefKerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas, Austin

• Introduction ; 1. Prelude: The Christianizing of British America ; 2. Missionaries and Empire: An Overview 1700-1914 ; 3. Humanitarians and White Settlers in the Nineteenth Century ; 4. Where the Missionary Frontier Ran Ahead of Empire ; 5. Christian Missions and the Raj ; 6. New Christians as Evangelists ; 7. 'Trained to Tell the Truth': Missionaries, Converts, and Narration ; 8. Women and Cultural Exchanges ; 9. Language ; 10. New Religious Movements ; 11. Anthropology ; 12. Education and Medicine ; 13. Decolonization

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