Colonies in the Countryside: Doing Mission in Imperial Germany.
This article adds the rural area of Wilhelmine Germany to the rich field of studies on the colonial public sphere in order to reassess the role mission associations played. The main argument is that so called mission friends developed a specific agenda that overlapped with the official politics of t...
| Published in: | Journal of Social History Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 502 - 518 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2017
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