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Author:

Jensz, Felicity

Title:

German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908 : influential strangers / by Felicity Jensz.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xv, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Moravian Church--History--Victoria--Victoria--History--19th century.
Missions, German--Victoria--Victoria--History--19th century.
Germans--Victoria--Victoria--History--19th century.
Aboriginal Australians--History--Victoria--Victoria--History--19th century.
Victoria--Church history--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

Contents:

"Every triumphant death"--closure in a British colony. "The most wretched and bleakest" : Moravian desire to work amongst the Australian Aborigines -- "Ein fauler Fleck" : Lake Boga, a putrid stain -- "I is done--no more" : the first converts -- "Alles geht seinen schleppenden Gang"--expansion, movement and sluggish progress -- "Every triumphant death"--closure in a British colony.

Series:

Studies in Christian mission; v. 38

ISBN:

9004179216 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004179219 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)457129722

LCCN:

2009046088

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)