Description: Protestant missionary children's historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It extends scholarship into the mid-twentieth century.
Review Quotes:
'This is an impressive history of a group until now overlooked in studies of imperialism. In addition to institutional and other adult perspectives, extensive interviews give voice to the children themselves. Drawing upon the history of emotion and memory to enrich his analysis, Morrison sensitively captures the complex significance of missionary children's lives.'
--Katie Pickles, The University of Canterbury/ Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha