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Missionaries, Miners, and Indians : Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Nation of Northwestern New Spain, 1533–1820 / by Hu-DeHart, Evelyn

“…Missionaries, miners & Indians.…”
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Paths of Duty : American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii / by Grimshaw, Patricia

Subjects: “…Missionaries' spouses Hawaii History 19th century. 154077…”
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Little giant of Bechuanaland : a biography of William Charles Willoughby, missionary and scholar / by Rutherford, John

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Unconventional Sisterhood : Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines / by Claussen, Heather L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- 3. The Making of the Missionary Benedictines -- 4. Unggoy Formation -- 5. …”
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A delirious summer : a novel / by Blackston, Ray

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On Being Human : Folklore of Mormon Missionaries / by Wilson, William A. (William Albert), 1933-2016

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries; Selected Bibliography.…”
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History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt / by Bishop, Michael Guy, 1951-

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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / by Purdy, Daniel L.

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Negotiating the Christian Past in China : Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen / by Liu, Jifeng

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2 Discursive Reversals on Western Missionaries --…”
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Christian Masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries /

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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900-30 /…”
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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta : The Colonial Period in the American Southwest /

Table of Contents: “…Moquis, Kastiilam, and the trauma of history : Hopi oral traditions of seventeenth-century Franciscan missionary abuses /…”
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The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, Sources / by Cohick, Lynn H.

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Sacred Rivals : Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria / by Peterson, Joseph W.

Table of Contents: “…Sincerely religious : Louis Veuillot and Catholic representations of Islam and empire -- God and Caesar : missionaries and militaires in colonial Algeria -- White unto harvest : religion, race, and the Jesuit mission arabe at Constantine -- Crusade of charity : liberal Catholic roots of the civilizing mission -- Conspiracy to massacre : liberal Catholics and the invention of pan-Islam -- Worthy of his hire : Charles Lavigerie, Algerian Muslims, and missionary fundraising -- Compel them to come : Algerian students and colonial racism between France and Algeria.…”
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Britain and China by Luard, Evan, 1926-1991

Table of Contents: “…The British assault -- The Chinese rejoinder -- Britain and the Kuomintang -- The coming of the Communists -- The Korean war -- Missionaries -- Merchants -- Geneva and after -- Hong Kong -- The two Chinas -- Chinese aspirations and British interests -- British policy and the future.…”
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Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan : The Development of the Feminist Movement / by Patessio, Mara, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Early Meiji women and the public sphere -- Female students and teachers in private and public schools -- Foreign women missionaries and their Japanese female charges -- Women's groups and their activities -- Women's political participation -- Conclusions and a step forward.…”
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Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit : Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France / by Accampo, Elinor Ann

Table of Contents: “…Conversion experiences -- Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism -- The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle -- The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception -- Pathologies and persecutions -- The Great War: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded heart" -- Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.…”
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Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage and Screen /

Table of Contents: “…Aaron Sanders -- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy -- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. …”
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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Beyond the state -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: looking beyond the state: Anna Greenwood -- 2 Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940: Yolana Pringle -- 3 The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts: Markku Hokkanen -- 4 The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa: Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala -- 5 The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47: Anna Greenwood -- 6 Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa: Matthew M. …”
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Marrow of Human Experience, The : Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson / by Wilson, William Albert, 1861-1951

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The importance of folklore -- The deeper necessity : folklore and the humanities -- Building bridges : folklore in the academy -- Arts and cultural policy -- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" -- The folk speak : everyday life in pioneer oral narratives -- Documenting folklore -- Folklore and national identity -- Herder, folklore, and romantic nationalism -- Sibelius, the Kalevala, and Karelianism -- Folklore, nationalism, and the challenge of the future -- Finns in a new world : a folkloristic perspective -- Folklore, religion, and who we are -- The concept of the west and other hindrances to the study of Mormon folklore -- The study of Mormon folklore : an uncertain mirror for truth -- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries -- The seriousness of Mormon humor -- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : three nephites in contemporary Mormon culture -- "Teach me all that I must do" : the practice of Mormon religion -- Personal narratives : the family novel -- A daughter's biography of William A. …”
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