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OverviewThis book brings together fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. Bringing together the work of leading international scholars of mission and empire, the focus is on missions across the British Empire (including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific), within transnational and comparative perspectives. Themes throughout the contributions include collusion or opposition to colonial authorities, intercultural exchanges, the work of indigenous and local Christians in new churches, native evangelism and education, clashes between variant views of domesticity and parenting roles, and the place of gender in these transformations.Missionaries could be both implicated in the plot of colonial control, in ways seemingly contrary to Christian norms, or else play active roles as proponents of the social, economic and political rights of their native brethren. Indigenous Christians themselves often had a liminal status, negotiating as they did the needs and desires of the colonial state as well as those of their own peoples. In some mission zones where white missionaries were seen to be constrained by their particular views of race and respectability, black evangelical preachers had far greater success as agents of Christianity. This book contains contributions by historians from Australasia and North America who observe the fine grain of everyday life on mission stations, and present broader insights on questions of race, culture and religion. The volume makes a timely intervention into continuing debates about the relationship between mission and empire. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia Grimshaw , Andrew MayPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Dimensions: Width: 24.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 17.10cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781845193089ISBN 10: 1845193083 Pages: 207 Publication Date: 03 November 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Reappraisals of Mission History: An Introduction; Mother's Milk: Gender, Power & Anxiety on a South African Mission Station, 1839-1840; ""The Natives Uncivilise Me"": Missionaries & Interracial Intimacy in Early New Zealand; Contested Conversions: Missionary Women's Religious Encounters in Early Colonial Uganda; ""It is No Soft Job to be Performed"": Missionaries & Imperial Manhood in Canada, 1880-1920; An Indigenous View of Missionaries: Arthur Wellington Clah & Missionaries on the North-west Coast of Canada; The Promise of a Book: Missionaries & Native Evangelists in North-east India; Translation Teams: Missionaries, Islanders, & the Reduction of Language in the Pacific; Practising Christianity, Writing Anthropology: Missionary Anthropologists & their Informants; Missionaries, Africans & the State in the Development of Education in Colonial Natal, 1836-1910; Colonial Agents: German Moravian Missionaries in the English-Speaking World; ""A Matter of No Small Importance to the Colony"": Moravian Missionaries on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1891-1919; Mission Dormitories: Intergenerational Implications for Kalumburu & Balgo, Kimberley, Western Australia; Bibliography; Index."ReviewsThe central aim of this collection of 12 studies 'is the deconstruction of missions, mission activities and outcomes in the British Empire in the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth.' Key themes that emerge are the explanatory power of intimate relations and gender; day-to-day interactions between missionaries, indigenous groups, and other groups of people; the role of indigenous Christians in the spread of faith and the creation of religious communities; and the socio-political and geographic contexts of missions in the British Empire. Examples of specific topics include missionaries and interracial intimacy in early New Zealand; missionaries and imperial manhood in Canada from 1880 to 1920; missionaries, islanders, and the reduction of language in the Pacific; missionary anthropologists and their informants; and missionaries, Africans, and the state in the development of education in colonial Natal, 1836-1910. -- Reference & Research Book News The central aim of this collection of 12 studies is the deconstruction of missions, mission activities and outcomes in the British Empire in the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. Key themes that emerge are the explanatory power of intimate relations and gender; day-to-day interactions between missionaries, indigenous groups, and other groups of people; the role of indigenous Christians in the spread of faith and the creation of religious communities; and the socio-political and geographic contexts of missions in the British Empire. Examples of specific topics include missionaries and interracial intimacy in early New Zealand; missionaries and imperial manhood in Canada from 1880 to 1920; missionaries, islanders, and the reduction of language in the Pacific; missionary anthropologists and their informants; and missionaries, Africans, and the state in the development of education in colonial Natal, 1836-1910. Reference & Research Book News Author InformationPatricia Grimshaw is a leading historian of women's history in Australia. Andrew May is Senior Lecturer in Australian History in the School of Historical Studies at The University of Melbourne. 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