Product Description: This reprint - originally published by Quintus Publishing - brings together essays by leading Australian and international historians in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited by N...read more

Product Description: In 1814, the London Missionary Society accepted Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld as one of its missionaries. Threlkeld eventually travelled to Australia to set up the Lake Macquarie mission in colonial New South Wales. Once the mission was established, controversies, arguments, tempers, and acrimonious debates abounded, resulting in a very public 'paper war' - a phrase Threlkeld used to describe the proliferation of writing around him, usually in relation to some local controversy, often of his own creation...read more

Product Description: Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnson reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society...read more