Search Results - "missionary"

Indians, missionaries, and merchants the legacy of colonial encounters on the California frontiers / by Lightfoot, Kent G., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Dimensions and consequences of colonial encounters -- Visions of pre-colonial native California -- Franciscan missions in Alta California -- Native agency in the Franciscan missions -- Russian merchants in California -- Native agency in the Ross Colony -- Missionary and mercantile colonies in California -- The aftermath -- Conclusion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The foreign missionary enterprise at home explorations in North American cultural history /

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke missionaries by Porterfield, Amanda, 1947-

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Lottie Moon a Southern Baptist missionary to China in history and legend / by Sullivan, Regina D., 1962-

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Native apostles Black and Indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world / by Andrews, Edward E., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Apostles to the Indians -- The expansion of the indigenous missionary enterprise -- Slave preachers and Indian separatism -- A Black among Blacks -- Native evangelists in the Iroquoian borderlands -- Afro-Christian evangelism and Indian missions.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Woman in the wilderness letters of Harriet Wood Wheeler, missionary wife, 1832-1892 / by Bunge, Nancy L.

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mission to Siam the memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell / by Hartzell, Jessie MacKinnon, 1884-1968

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Nearest East American millennialism and mission to the Middle East / by Kieser, Hans-Lukas

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The poor Indians British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility / by Stevens, Laura M.

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Native Americans, Christianity, and the reshaping of the American religious landscape

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine / by Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Reforming the world the creation of America's moral empire / by Tyrrell, Ian R.

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Turk in America creation of an enduring prejudice / by McCarthy, Justin, 1945-

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Citizens of a Christian nation Evangelical missions and the problem of race in the nineteenth century / by Chang, Derek, 1969-

Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Inventing entertainment the player piano and the origins of an American musical industry / by Dolan, Brian, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Soundscape and memory -- Missionaries and museums -- Chronic mechanitis -- Every collector's dream -- A musical Morse code -- A search for identity -- Possession -- Expression -- A race for the rolls -- Music for the masses?…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A class of their own Black teachers in the segregated South / by Fairclough, Adam

Table of Contents: “…The odyssey of black teachers -- Freedom's first generation -- Black teachers for black children -- Missionaries to the dark South -- White supremacy and black teachers -- The founders -- The faith of women -- The city and the country -- Teachers organize -- Black teachers and the civil rights movement -- Integration: loss and profit.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Distorted mirrors Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / by Davis, Donald E., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…X -- Gray eminence -- pt. 2. China -- Missionary diplomacy -- Pragmatist in China -- Red star over China -- The novelist and the ambassador -- The president and the generalissimo -- Luce's man in Chungking -- Gurus -- Old conclusions, new beginnings.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Habits of change an oral history of American nuns / by Rogers, Carole Garibaldi

Table of Contents: “…Evolving ministries. In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Practicing protestants histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965 /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Evangelical practice in Enlightenment New England, 1630-1800 -- Writing as Protestant practice : devotional diaries in early New England / Catherine Brekus -- Forgiveness : from the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards / Mark Valeri -- Part II: Mission, nation, and Christian practice, 1820-1940 -- Assembling bodies and souls : missionary practices on the Pacific frontier / Laurie Maffly-Kipp -- Honoring elders : practices of sagacity and deference in Ojibwe Christianity / Michael McNally -- Nurturing religious nationalism : Korean Americans in Hawaii / David K. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view