Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950

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Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950 is written by Hugh Morrison and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526156776 (ISBN 10) and 9781526156778 (ISBN 13).

Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.