Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Contributors
Introduction • David Arnold and Robert A. Bickers
1. “Mighty England do good”: the major English denominations and organisation for the support of foreign missions in the nineteenth century • Steven Maughan
2. Some problems in writing a missionary society history today: the example of the Baptist Missionary Society • Brian Stanley
3. “Open doors for female labourers”: women candidates of the London Missionary Society, 1875-1914 • Rosemary Seton
4. Problems and opportunities in an anthropologist’s use of a missionary archive • J. D. Y. Peel
5. Four nineteenth-century pictorial images from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive and Library Collections • Paul Jenkins
6. Women and education in South Africa: how helpful are the mission archives? • Deborah Gaitskell
7. The nature of a mission community: the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Bonde • Justin Willis
8. Who is to benefit from missionary education? Travancore in the 1930s • Dick Kooiman
9. A “peculiar and exceptional measure”: the call for women medical missionaries for India in the later nineteenth century • Rosemary Fitzgerald
10. Missionaries as social commentators: the Indian case • Geoffrey A. Oddie
11. “To serve and not to rule”: British Protestant missionaries and Chinese nationalism, 1928-1931 • Robert A. Bickers
Appendix: Archival sources in Britain for the study of mission history • Rosemary Seton