Author: H. A. RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Eromanga
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Martyrs' Isle, Or Madagascar
Author: Annie SharmanPublisher:
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Category : Christian martyrs
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Erromanga, the Martyr Isle
Author: H. A. RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Eromanga
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Martyrs
Author: Roger HutchinsonPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857908804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland. In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent—not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels. This book is a definitive account of what happened when the powderkeg erupted and a full-scale land war ensued. Pitched battles with police, factors, and bailiffs, military intervention, arrests, trials, imprisonment, and the personal intervention of the Prime Minister were to have huge consequences for crofters all over the Highlands, who, ultimately, were the victors. At the heart of the rising was a man named John MacPherson of Lower Milovaig in Glendale, a courageous, charismatic and articulate crofter who was twice imprisoned for leading a rebellion against a system which kept all but the wealthiest in a state of bitter servitude. MacPherson quickly became known as “the Glendale Martyr.” Martyrs tells the story of John MacPherson, his comrades, his allies, his enemies, and his final success.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints
Author: Alban ButlerPublisher:
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Category : Christian martyrs
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Missionary Imperialists?
Author: John H. DarchPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606085964
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Missionary Imperialists? examines the frontiers of empire in tropical Africa and the south-west Pacific in the Mid-Victorian era. Its central theme is the role played by British Protestant missionaries in imperial development and a continuous thread is the interaction between the missions and those in government, both London and in the colonies. An introductory chapter examines the main missionary societies involved in this study. This is followed by six detailed case studies, three from the south-west Pacific (the Pacific labor trade, Fiji, and New Guinea) and three from tropical Africa (the Gambia, Lagos and Yorubaland, and East Africa). The crucial importance of influential missionary supporters in Britain is noted as its missionary involvement in wider campaigning networks with other humanitarian groups. The book argues that where missionaries did aid imperial development it was largely incidental, an imperialism of result rather than an imperialism of intent to use the categories of Cain and Hopkins. It will be seen that although there were a few dedicated imperialists in the missionary ranks, and others gradually became convinced that the future of their particular mission and its people would be most secure under British jurisdiction, the majority had no such enthusiasm. Yet this did not mean that they had no effect on imperial development. Campaigns against both slavery and indentured labor inevitably raised the profile and influence of Europeans on the imperial frontier thus shifting a fragile balance in their direction. Most importantly, by their very presence on the frontiers of empire and as providers of education and European moral and spiritual values, missionaries became incidental and sometimes unintentional but nevertheless effective agents of imperialism.
The Trans-pacific
Author: Benjamin Wilfried FleisherPublisher:
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Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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The Bible in the World
Author: The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints; compiled from original monuments, and other authentic records; illustrated with the remarks of judicious modern critics and historians
Author: Alban ButlerAn Autumn Dream
Author: John SheppardA Critical and Historical Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs, Shewing the Inaccuracies, Falsehoods, and Misrepresentations in that Work of Deception
Author: William Eusebius AndrewsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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