Product Description: This book was first published in 1985.

Product Description: This is the only book that addresses the relations between religion, Protestant missions, and empire building, linking together all three fields of study by taking as its starting point the early eighteenth century Anglican initiatives in colonial North America and the Caribbean...read more

Product Description: Christian missions have long been associated with the growth of empire and colonial rule. For just as long, the nature and consequences of that association have provoked animated debate over such themes as culture and identity. This volume brings together studies of changing attitudes and practices in Protestant missions during the hectic decades of European imperial and territorial expansion between 1880 and 1914...read more

Product Description: This atlas comprises a full guide to the history of Britain's imperial enterprise. In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the spread of white settlement...read more

Product Description: Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century. Decolonization -- History -- 20th century.

Product Description: This study combines an assessment of Donald Currie's Castle Line, one of 19th-century Britain's major shipping companies, with a much wider analysis of British and Imperial politics and economic development.