Mary Porter Gamewell And Her Story Of The Siege In Peking

Author : Mary Porter Gamewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : WISC:89098853864

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Mary Porter Gamewell and Her Story of the Siege in Peking by Mary Porter Gamewell Pdf

The subject of this biography was born Mary Porter in Pennsylvania of English parents. Her mother studied medicine at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, established a medical practice in Davenport, Iowa, and was prominent in organizing women to relieve suffering during the Civil War. The daughter left for China as a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in October, 1871 and spent about 30 years in China. Includes many excerpts from her letters as well as her own account of the siege of the foreign legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

Author : Alexander Harrison Tuttle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019998873

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Mary Porter Gamewell and Her Story of the Siege in Peking by Alexander Harrison Tuttle Pdf

This gripping history chronicles the experiences of Mary Porter Gamewell, a missionary who found herself caught in the middle of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. Gamewell and her husband, a Methodist missionary, were stationed in Peking when the rebellion broke out, and they soon found themselves under siege in the foreign legation quarter. With great courage and resourcefulness, Gamewell helped to organize the defense of the legation and care for the wounded and sick. Mary Porter Gamewell and Her Story of the Siege in Peking is a vivid account of one woman's remarkable bravery and dedication. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Mary Porter Gamewell,A H 1844-1932 Tuttle
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359776338

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Mary Porter Gamewell and Her Story of the Siege in Peking by Mary Porter Gamewell,A H 1844-1932 Tuttle Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : A. H. Tuttle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0857061372

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Mary Porter Gamewell and the Siege of Peking by A. H. Tuttle Pdf

Under siege in imperial China Mary Gamewell was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China. This riveting account of a good woman continuing her vocational work despite every adversity will absorb those interested Women missionaries, the China of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the turbulent time of the Boxers. Gamewell was already an 'old China' hand by 1900. She had experienced the Chungking Riot of 1886 and knew well the dangers which could beset Europeans in her position. Her view of the siege of Peking itself will interest any student of the subject. Available in soft cover or hard back with dust jacket.

Author : Ethel Daniels Hubbard
Publisher : New York : Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : China
ISBN : NYPL:33433082406012

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Under Marching Orders by Ethel Daniels Hubbard Pdf

Author : Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802846807

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Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions by Gerald H. Anderson Pdf

"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442244320

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Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States by George Thomas Kurian,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more. The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.

Author : Charles Yrigoyen Jr.,Susan E. Warrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810865464

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Historical Dictionary of Methodism by Charles Yrigoyen Jr.,Susan E. Warrick Pdf

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notable contributions. It also includes: a list of commonly used acronyms, chronology of historical events, introductory essay on the history of Methodism, 15-page black-and-white photo spread, bibliography, listing of important libraries and depositories of Methodist materials. The impressive list of contributors includes more than 60 specialists who are academics, administrators, pastors, and theologians.

Author : Katherine H. Lee Ahn
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878088270

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Awakening the Hermit Kingdom by Katherine H. Lee Ahn Pdf

Awakening the Hermit Kingdom: Pioneer American Women Missionaries in Korea gives a focused look at the long-ignored subject, the pioneer women missionaries to the Hermit Kingdom, as the early missionaries often called Korea. Based largely on private papers and mission reports of the missionaries, the author explores the life and work of the American women missionaries in the first quarter century of the Protestant mission in Korea. This book brings a new light to the history of Protestantism in Korea by revealing the identity and activities of the women missionaries, as well as the level of religious and social impact made by their presence and work in Korea.

Author : Dana Lee Robert
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865545499

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American Women in Mission by Dana Lee Robert Pdf

The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.

Author : Harold D. Lasswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351482042

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The Good Years by Harold D. Lasswell Pdf

The period between 1900 and the First World War could be called the Confident Years, the Buoyant Years, the Spirited Years, or named after some bright, hopeful color, like the Golden Years. It could be done, but such tags are the invention of pundits, social historians, and professional name coiners. To the many varied people who lived through the era--the men and women who wistfully recall marching for suffrage, rebuilding San Francisco, or cheering wildly for Woodrow Wilson--the age was remembered as the Good Years. It was a time of triumph (the Wright brothers) and of tragedy (the Titanic). Days of wealth (a $200,000 ball) and of poverty (a child in a cotton mill earning $3.54 a week). But through it all ran an exciting thread of boundless confidence and hope. No one ever accused the people of that period of national indifference. It is this spirit of uncontested optimism, along with the pageant of great events, that makes this book such rewarding reading. In gathering his material, Walter Lord pored over letters, diaries, unpublished reminiscences, even Pinkerton reports, filled with fascinating and, until now, unknown detail. He traveled thousands of miles and interviewed the people who lived through the period. He met with individuals who firmly believed they had been given the greatest experience anyone could ever have; they knew and enjoyed the years when there was no limit to what we could and would do. Lord's attention to first-hand sources makes this book vivid and timeless. And Leslie Lenkowsky's new introduction adds contemporary dimension to this classic work.

Author : Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128868762

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps and Charts by Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Richard Baldwin Cook
Publisher : RICHARD BALDWIN COOK
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979125713

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All of the Above I by Richard Baldwin Cook Pdf

A history of the ancestry of Elizabeth Huey Taylor Cook, tracing various genealogical lines more than four hundred years. Individuals and couples are placed in their historical context, showing their participation in the events of their time (Revolutionary War, Civil War, early settlements in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Kentucky). Special attention is given to the role of various ancestors in the Indian wars of the 1600s and 1700s. Many details about the families' ownership of slaves are included. Various indiiduals' participation in church and community activities - from the earliest colonial settlements to and including the 20th century - are also covered. The main surnames which are treated include TAYLOR, HUEY, MOORE, CROUCH, MAYO, BALDWIN, SCOTT, DAWSON, PUTNAM, PORTER, HAWTHORNE, DOYNE, WHARTON, STONE, WINSTON, GAINES, WATTS, GOUGE, GRAVES, WILLIAMS, HUNT, JEWETT/JUETT, MASON, PENDLETON, GAMEWELL, SWAINE, PARSONS, BOOTH, WOODBURY, DWIGHT, WALTON, MAVERICK, HARRISON, LYTTLETON, VALLETTE, MARMADUKE. A total of about 120 surnames are traced.

Author : Douglas Kerr,Julia Kuehn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789622098459

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A Century of Travels in China by Douglas Kerr,Julia Kuehn Pdf

Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People's Republic, China's history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn continuities. At the same time, the country has beguiled, scared and puzzled people in the West. The Victorian public admired and imitated Chinese fashions, in furniture and design, gardens and clothing, while maintaining a generally negative idea of the Chinese empire as pagan, backward and cruel. In the first half of the twentieth century, the fascination continued. Most foreigners were aware that revolutionary changes were taking place in Chinese politics and society, yet most still knew very little about the country. But what about those few people from the English-speaking world who had first-hand experience of the place? What did they have to say about the "real" China? To answer this question, we have to turn to the travel accounts and memoirs of people who went to see for themselves, during China's most traumatic century. While this book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from recent scholarship of the travel genre.

Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691162010

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Reforming the World by Ian Tyrrell Pdf

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American response to internal pressures, the European colonies, and dynamic changes in global society. Examining the cultural context of American expansionism from the 1870s to the 1920s, Tyrrell provides a new interpretation of Christian and evangelical missionary work, and he addresses America's use of "soft power." He describes evangelical reform's influence on American colonial and diplomatic policy, emphasizes the limits of that impact, and documents the often idiosyncratic personal histories, aspirations, and cultural heritage of moral reformers such as Margaret and Mary Leitch, Louis Klopsch, Clara Barton, and Ida Wells. The book illustrates that moral reform influenced the United States as much as it did the colonial and quasi-colonial peoples Americans came in contact with, and shaped the architecture of American dealings with the larger world of empires through to the era of Woodrow Wilson. Investigating the wide-reaching and diverse influence of evangelical reform movements, Reforming the World establishes how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion.