The History Of The Tahitian Mission 1799 1830 Written By John Davies Missionary To The South Sea Islands

Author : C. W. Newbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743203688

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History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands by C. W. Newbury Pdf

This contains chapters 6-12 and 14-20 of Davies's unpublished 'History', chapter 13 omitted as already in print (see pp. 119-60 of Second Series 52). The editor's 'Epilogue', continuing the history of the mission to 1860, includes part of Davies's 'Conclusion' and supplementary correspondence. Appendices discuss the Pomare dynasty and missionary codes of law for eastern Polynesia. _x000B__x000B_This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

Author : C. W. Newbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2010-07-28
Category : French Polynesia
ISBN : 1409414825

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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands by C. W. Newbury Pdf

In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

Author : C.W. Newbury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317028710

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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands by C.W. Newbury Pdf

In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

Author : John Davies
Publisher : Cambridge, Eng., U. P
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : French Polynesia
ISBN : MSU:31293010561631

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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830 by John Davies Pdf

Author : John Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
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Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758154275

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The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799 by John Davies Pdf

Author : John Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
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Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:30234938

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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, with Supplementary Papers from the Correspondence of the Missionaries by John Davies Pdf

Author : Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004399600

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Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission by Martha Frederiks,Dorottya Nagy Pdf

This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

Author : Andrew Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 071902823X

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Religion Versus Empire? by Andrew Porter Pdf

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. It considers how the early societies of the 1790s built on this inheritance, and extended their own interests to the Pacific, India, the Far East, and Africa. Fluctuations in the vigor and commitment of the missions, changing missionary theologies, and the emergence of alternative missionary strategies, are all examined for their impact on imperial expansion. Other themes include the international character of the missionary movement, Christianity's encounter with Islam, and major figures such as David Livingstone, the state and politics, and humanitarianism, all of which are viewed in a fresh light.

Author : Brian Stanley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136865541

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Christian Missions and the Enlightenment by Brian Stanley Pdf

Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.

Author : Max Quanchi,John Robson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865280

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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands by Max Quanchi,John Robson Pdf

The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.

Author : Douglas L. Oliver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824884536

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Ancient Tahitian Society by Douglas L. Oliver Pdf

“Tahiti is far famed yet too little known.” Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that time, but a unified, comprehensive, and detailed description of the pre-European ways of life of the inhabitants of those Islands is yet to appear in print. The present work, lengthy as it is, makes no such claim to comprehensiveness; rather, it is concerned mainly with the social relations of those inhabitants, and it serves up only enough about their technology, their religion, their aesthetic expressions, and so forth to place descriptions of their social relations in context and render them more comprehensible. Volumes 1 and 2 of this work are a reconstruction of the Islanders’ way of life as it was believed to have been just before it began to be transformed by European influence—a period labeled the Late Indigenous Era. Volume 3 covers events in Tahiti and Mo‘orea from about 1767 to 1815—a period labeled the Early European Era.

Author : Jennifer Newell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832810

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Trading Nature by Jennifer Newell Pdf

In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I's ethnographical museum in St. Petersburg. Russia's strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian government to include as part of the expedition and embassy to Japan, headed by statesman Nikolai Rezanov, who was given authority over the ships' commanders without their knowledge. Between them the ships carried an ethnically and socially disparate group of men: Russian educated elite, German naturalists, Siberian merchants, Baltic Naval Officers, even Japanese passengers. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago on May 7, 1804, and for the next twelve days, the naval officers revolted against Rezanov's command while complex cross-cultural encounters between Russians and islanders occurred. Elena Govor recounts the voyage, reconstructing and exploring in depth the tumultuous events of the Russians' stay in Nuku Hiva; the course of the mutiny, its resolution and aftermath; and the extent and nature of the contact between Nuku Hivans and Russians. Book jacket.

Author : R. J. Morrison,Paul A. Geraghty,Linda Crowl
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9820201063

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Science of Pacific Island Peoples: Fauna, flora, food and medicine by R. J. Morrison,Paul A. Geraghty,Linda Crowl Pdf

Author : D.B. Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317029588

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The Hakluyt Handbook by D.B. Quinn Pdf

The Hakluyt Handbook provides a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, translator and author of travel literature. In Volume I, part one consists of a series of essays by specialists in the various field with which Hakluyt was concerned and attempts to evaluate his significance for historians, geographers and students of literature and society; part two comprises an analysis of the quality of his selections of material for his greatest collection The Principal Navigations...of the English Nation in a series of regional studies; and part three is a chronology of his life and writings expanded from that in G.B. Parks, Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyagers (1928). Parts four and five (in Volume II) analyse the contents and sources of Hakluyt's three major works Divers Voyages (1582), Principall Navigations (1589) and Principal Navigations (1598-1600), and provide detailed bibliographical material on the works with which Hakluyt was associated. A critical bibliography of secondary works and an analytical list of the publications of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1973, complete the work. An index of books and articles referred to in the volumes is included. The Hakluyt Handbook has been under consideration by the Hakluyt Society for more than a decade and owes much to the late R.A. Skelton (1906-70). The editor Professor D.B. Quinn has had the generous co-operation of more than twenty members of the Society in its compilation. It is hoped that the volumes will not only have value to members of the Society and to many students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, but that they will stimulate further research on Richard Hakluyt and a further refinement of our knowledge of Hakluyt's sources and bibliography. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 145) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first publis

Author : Atholl Anderson,Douglas J. Kennett
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781922144256

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Taking the High Ground by Atholl Anderson,Douglas J. Kennett Pdf

This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock shelters, and fortifications, but faunal remains, agricultural development, and marine exploitation. The results, presented within a chronology framed by Bayesian analysis, are set against a background of ethnohistory and ethnology. Highly unusual in tropical Polynesian archaeology are descriptions of artefacts of perishable material. Taking the High Ground provides important insights into how a group of Polynesian settlers adapted to an isolated and in some ways restrictive environment.