Author: Angela Middleton
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: historical, archaeology, zealand, new, contributions, global, station, mission, puna
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0387776206
ISBN-13: 9780387776200

Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonisation throughout the globe, from India to Africa and into the Pacific. In late 18th-century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the first decade of the 19th-century, sent three of its members to New South Wales, Australia, and then on to New Zealand, an unknown, little-explored part of the world. Across the globe, a common material culture travelled with its evangelizing (and later colonizing) settlers, with artefacts appearing as cultural