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“rosemary seton”

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  • Western Daughters in Eastern Lands

    British Missionary Women in Asia

    by Rosemary Seton ...
    This book provides a compelling narrative history of the experiences and achievements of female British missionaries in China, India, and Africa during the 19th century and first half of the 20th century—the first such account available.Despite the fact that by the early 20th century female missionaries began to outnumber their male counterparts, there are few publications that document the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Missionary Encounters

    by Robert A. Bickers, Rosemary Seton ...
    Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • Transplanted Christianity

    Documents illustrating aspects of New Zealand Church History

    Edited by Allan K Davidson, Peter J Lineham ...
    Transplanted Christianity is a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the history of the church in New Zealand from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Informative introductions and explanations by Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham fill in the context and make this a book of interest to the serious student of church history and the casual reader alike. This ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone

    by Joseph Meisel ...
    By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speech. Shedding new light on the careers of many of the most important figures of the Victorian era and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods

    Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies

    by Helen May, Baljit Kaur, Larry Prochner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Learning from Lord Mackay

    Life and Work in Two Kingdoms

    by J Cameron Fraser ...
    James Mackay served as Lord Advocate of Scotland (1979-84) and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1987-97). He is, in the words of a past President of the Law Society of Scotland, "not only an outstanding man in his profession, but one of the most brilliant Scottish scholars of all time." He is also a humble Christian who has served his Lord in church and state. This book seeks to introduce him to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Missionary families

    Race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier

    by Emily Manktelow ...
    Series Book 108 - Studies in Imperialism
    Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own right for the first time, Missionary families traces changing familial policies and lived realities ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932

    by Tim Allender ...
    Series Book 136 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Missionary Discourses of Difference

    Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

    by E. Cleall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Victorians and the Case for Charity

    Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati

    Edited by Marilyn D. Button, Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen ...
    This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Subverting Empire

    Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

    Edited by Will Jackson, Emily Manktelow ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain

    Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights

    by Ben Griffin ...
    This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights and demonstrates how political activity has been shaped by changes in the history of masculinity. From the second half of the nineteenth century, Britain's all-male parliament began to transform the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD