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082 _a266.023 JOH
100 _aJohnston, Anna,
245 _aMissionary writing and empire, 1800-1860
_c/ Anna Johnston
260 _aNew York :
_b Cambridge University Press,
_c2003.
300 _axii, 262 pages
_b : illustrations
_c; 24 cm
365 _b3153
490 _aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 38
505 _aThe British Empire, colonialism, and missionary activity -- Gender, domesticity, and colonial evangelisation -- Empire, India, and evangelisation -- Missionary writing in India -- Imperialism, suffragism, and nationalism -- Polynesian missions and the European imaginary -- Missionary writing in Polynesia -- The Australian colonies and empire -- Missionary writing in Australia -- Conclusion: missionary writing, the imperial archive and postcolonial politics.
520 _aJohnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire and argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between religous and imperial interests.
650 _aSocial & Ecclesiastical Theology
650 _a Missions
650 _aLondon Missionary Society -- History -- 19th century.
650 _aMissions, English -- Polynesia -- History -- 19th century
650 _aImperialism -- History -- 19th century.
650 _aMissions, English.
650 _aAustralia.
650 _aLondoner Mission
650 _aRapporteren.
650 _aImperialismus
700 _aJohnston, Anna, 1972-
942 _cBOOK