Author: Catharine Winkworth MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Coillard of the Zambesi, the Lives of Francois and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, in South and Central Africa (1858-1904).
Author: Catharine Winkworth MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Zambezi
Author: Malyn NewittPublisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787388735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent’s principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the culture of the river peoples and their relations with the Portuguese creole society of the prazos. Hitherto unused manuscript material illustrates Portuguese and British colonial rule over the people of the long-lived Lunda kingdoms, and the Lozi of the Barotse Floodplain. The Zambezi became a war zone during the ‘Scramble for Africa’, the struggle for independence and the civil wars that followed the departure of colonial powers. Recent history has also seen the river’s wild nature tamed by the introduction of steamers and the building of bridges and dams. These developments have changed the character of the waterway, and impacted–often drastically–the ecological systems of the valley and those settled along its course. The Zambezi traces the history of the communities that have lived along this great river; their relationship with the states formed on the high veldt; and the ways they have adapted to the vagaries of the Zambezi itself, with its annual floods, turbulent rapids and dramatic gorges.
The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969
Author: Gerald L. CaplanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
Presbyterian Magazine
Author: The Assembly Herald
Author: The Presbyterian Magazine
Author: The Light of the Nations
Author: J. Edwin OrrPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526991
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The nineteenth century, observes Dr. Orr, was the century of Christian action and accomplishment. The social and political upheavals of the late eighteenth century were followed by a decline in Christian witness so serious that it seems as though Christianity was near death. In despair, Christian leaders prayed for Divine intervention; and answer came--a series of six great waves of evangelical renewal and advance which made the nineteenth century the Great Century of evangelism. From this study of Evangelical Revivals it is possible to trace a pattern of action and discover a progression of achievement which demonstrates that the same Spirit of God who moved the apostles continues to operate in the world. Dr. Orr suggests that the evangelical awakenings may be shown to be the foremost method of an Almighty God to promote the betterment of all mankind, and His primary instrument to win men to transforming faith in Himself.
Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885
Author: Catherine DelafieldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100002511X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects, and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women’s Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, tracing the means by which women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century.
Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Missionary Herald
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.