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Through this study of extensive personal daily journals, this work details the life of Richard Taylor, a 19th-century missionary in New Zealand. Self-described as a man "between two fires," this complex and benevolent man successfully promoted peace in New Zealand and took much of the heat out of race relations with his work as a negotiator.
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Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously transported to and adopted for all three colonies. From the 1820s to the 1850s, this transplantation of Britain’s infant schools to its distant colonies was deemed a radical and enlightened tool that was meant to hasten the conversion of 'heathen' ...
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