God's Gentlemen [[electronic resource] ] : A History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849-1942

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461716503321
• Autore: Hilliard David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brisbane, : University of Queensland Press, 1978
• ISBN: 1-921902-02-7
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Collana: Pacific Studies
• Disciplina: 266.2
• Soggetti: Church of England -- Missions; Church of the Province of New Zealand. -- Missionary dioceses. -- Melanesia; Missions -- Melanesia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Sommario/riassunto: David Hilliard's God's Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867-1920), the work follows the Mission's shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of the Second World War. The Mission, which grew out of the personal vision of the first Church of England Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, formally defined its field of work as 'the Islands of Melanesia' although its activities were confined almo