American Missionary History

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By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey 4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
The Missionary Enterprise in China and America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas)
Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Nurse's Story: Medical Missionary in Korea and Siberia, 1915-1920
A Nurse's Story: Medical Missionary in Korea and Siberia, 1915-1920 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism
The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis
Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson, the Dramatic Events of the First American Foreign Mission, and the Course of Evangelica
Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson, the Dramatic Events of the First American Foreign Mission, and the Course of Evangelica really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Spanish Missions of La Florida
The Spanish Missions of La Florida 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (Cultural Origins of North America)
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (Cultural Origins of North America) 4.06 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetary Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida
Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetary Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions
Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Missionaries: God against the Indians
The Missionaries: God against the Indians 4.12 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Bible and the flag: Protestant Mission And British Imperialism In The 19Th And 20Th Centuries
The Bible and the flag: Protestant Mission And British Imperialism In The 19Th And 20Th Centuries 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mission San Luis De Apalachee: A Visitor's Guide
Mission San Luis De Apalachee: A Visitor's Guide really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The World Is Too Much With Us: Culture in Modern Protestant Missions
The World Is Too Much With Us: Culture in Modern Protestant Missions liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide
Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide 4.35 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis
The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818
Keepers of the Covenant: Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism, 1774-1818 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. Religion in America Series
Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries. Religion in America Series really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930
California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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American Women in Mission: The Modern Mission Era 1792-1992
American Women in Mission: The Modern Mission Era 1792-1992 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands
Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands 3.38 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Spanish Frontier in North America (The Lamar Series in Western History)
The Spanish Frontier in North America (The Lamar Series in Western History) 3.88 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions
Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An 18Th-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama
The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An 18Th-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice
Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions along the Lower Gulf Coast (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico
Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico 3.54 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492-1570 (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Moral Geography
Moral Geography 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Columbian Consequences, Volume 1
Columbian Consequences, Volume 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits 3.60 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Columbian Consequences, Volume 2
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Looking Glass for Ladies
A Looking Glass for Ladies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist
Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World 3.72 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Relacion De Las Cosas De Yucatan (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology)
Relacion De Las Cosas De Yucatan (Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology) 3.76 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 8: World Christianities, c.1815-c.1914
The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 8: World Christianities, c.1815-c.1914 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History
Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic 4.08 avg rating — 163 ratings
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China's Millions
China's Millions 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books)
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press) 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Civil War Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania 1864 -1889
The Civil War Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania 1864 -1889 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East 3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Penn Center: A History Preserved
Penn Center: A History Preserved 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America 4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Providence Has Freed Our Hands: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan
Providence Has Freed Our Hands: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Whites Among The Cherokees Georgia 1827-1838: Written by the Participants (Georgia Genealogy Book Series)
Whites Among The Cherokees Georgia 1827-1838: Written by the Participants (Georgia Genealogy Book Series) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast
To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965 (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 37)
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965 (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 37) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways
Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out
Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference 4.34 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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Ancestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China
Ancestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography 3.97 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821
Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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No More Shacks!: The Daring Vision of Habitat for Humanity
No More Shacks!: The Daring Vision of Habitat for Humanity 3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Twenty Years at Hull House
Twenty Years at Hull House 3.65 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Nearest East: American Millenialism and Mission to the Middle East
Nearest East: American Millenialism and Mission to the Middle East really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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By Little and by Little: Selected Writings
By Little and by Little: Selected Writings 4.40 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
by: Lian Xi
3.66 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus 4.23 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape
Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day 3.94 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870
Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Dorothy Day: Selected Writings
Dorothy Day: Selected Writings 4.43 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet
Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist 4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole
The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960
Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire
Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire 3.46 avg rating — 48 ratings
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American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud)
American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England (Native Americans of the Northeast) 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920
An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America 3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II
The Gospel of Freedom and Power: Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion: Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183 (Haney Foundation Series)
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183 (Haney Foundation Series) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity
To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia
Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic 3.48 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World 3.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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