Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies.
Explores the value of missionary archives not only to the study of the processes of Christian envangelism and Western imperialism in the 19th and early-20th centuries, but also in documenting Western encounters with indigenous societies and shedding light on African and Asian societies.
