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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cult
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipu
A Century of Travels in China
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Douglas Kerr
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Tra
Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria
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This collection represents a serious re-examination of existing work on the Aboriginal history of nineteenth-century Victoria, deploying the insights of postcol
Mission from the Perspective of the Other
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Tim Noble
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

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Christian mission involves God, the missionary, and the other, the recipient of mission. This book argues for the centrality of this other in the practice of mi