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Tag Archives: missionaries
REVIEW: The Colonisation of Time by Giordano Nanni
Today’s ‘spring forward’ in the UK (clocks changing one hour to British Summer Time) suggests it’s a good moment to post the following, a review of Giordano Nanni’s wonderful book The Colonisation of Time. In 1884 Greenwich Mean Time was … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Information
Tagged Australia, colonialism, missionaries, South Africa, time
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REVIEW: Welsh Missionaries and British imperialism by Andrew May (Manchester University Press, 2013)
I have recently been reading Andrew May’s Welsh missionaries and British imperialism for a review in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial Studies and can say that it is both excellent, and beautifully written. Focusing on the experience of both … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Publications
Tagged British Empire, India, intimacy, missionaries, religion, scandal, settler colonialism
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Recent publications (February 2013)
Those of you interested in demographic and social histories of families, especially in early America, might be interested in the latest issue of The History of the Family, which includes a section on colonial families. This includes Kate Fawver’s introduction, … Continue reading
Posted in Publications
Tagged America, archive, children, demographic, economic, missionaries, Pacific, social, writing
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Announcements: Workshop on Intimacy and Mission History, and Recent Publications
You might be interested in this workshop on the role of emotions and intimacy in the history of Christian missions. >> Investigating the Intimate in Mission Histories 17 October 2012 (9 am – 5 pm) and 18 October 2012 (9 … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Publications
Tagged Australia, Britain, children, Denmark, emotions, gender, Greenland, India, material culture, memory, missionaries, Papua New Guinea, settler colonialism, sexuality, South Africa, South Seas
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New Release! (Esme Cleall, Missionary Discourses of Difference)
I just want to do a quick announcement today: our very own Esme Cleall has a book hot off the press! Entitled Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900, Esme’s book interrogates the ways in which … Continue reading
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Tagged British Empire, culture, difference, family, gender, India, missionaries, race, religion, sickness, southern Africa, violence
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