Andrew C. Ross

David Livingstone

Mission and Empire

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David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely to save souls and counter the slave trade? Or were they the first steps towards bringing the peoples of Central Africa under the control of Europeans who would destroy their values and exploit them economically? Beyond these questions, there lies the puzzle of Livingstone's own character and its contradictions. Livingstone's career was certainly an extraordinar… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8264-4514-8
EAN: 9780826445148
Produktnummer: 17004809
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 298 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 17'851 KB

Über den Autor

Andrew C. Ross is the author of A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1549-1742 and Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi. He is Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.