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  • Mana Maori and Christianity

    This book examines encounters between the Christian church and Maori. Christian faith among Maori changed from Maori receiving the missionary endeavours of Pakeha settlers, to the development of indigenous expressions of Christian faith, partnerships between Maori and Pakeha in the mainline churches, and the emergence of Destiny Church. The book looks at the growth, development and adaptation of ... Read more

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  • Structural Engineering Art and Approximation

    by Hugh Morrison ...
    "It is better to be roughly night than precisely wrong." John Maynard KeynesLOOK INSIDE? Samples and chapter summaries may be found on the website www.struartapp.comThis book contains approximate structural calculation methods for engineers and architects. For easy reference and assimilation it is broken down into categories from simple beams to more complex examples. With numerous figures and ... Read more

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  • Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950

    Empire, religion and emotion

    by Hugh Morrison ...
    Series Book 201 - Studies in Imperialism
    Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children ... Read more

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  • Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950

    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to ... Read more

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  • A History of Australian Schooling

    At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from colonial days to the present, highlighting the ways in which schooling has helped shape society ... Read more

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  • The Death of Christian Britain

    Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000

    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of gender analysis, and ... Read more

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  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

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  • A History of Oxford Anthropology

    Edited by Peter Rivière ...
    Series Book 15 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. ... Read more

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  • The Victorians

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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport networks, sewage systems, streets, and houses. Victorian cultural legacies, especially in art, science, and literature, are still ... Read more

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  • Fantastic Dreaming

    The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of ... Read more

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  • Webs of Empire

    Locating New Zealand’s Colonial Past

    Spread across the nineteenth-century colonial world was a tangled web of cultural and economic networks. In groundbreaking research, Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these ‘webs of empire’, connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing. His work breaks open the narrative of colonisation to offer sharp new perspectives on New Zealand history ... Read more

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