Missionary Writing and Empire, 18001860 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521826990
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; Polynesia; Literary Criticism; British Isles; London Missionary Society; Christian Ministry - Missions; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Australia; India; Missions, English
First sentence: Christian missionary activity was central to the work of European colonialism, providing British missionaries and their supporters with a sense of justice and moral authority.