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200 10$aGod's Gentlemen$b[electronic resource] $eA History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849-1942
205   $a2nd ed.
210   $aBrisbane $cUniversity of Queensland Press$d1978
215   $a1 online resource (438 p.)
225 1 $aPacific Studies
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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330   $aDavid 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
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606   $aChurch of England -- Missions
606   $aChurch of the Province of New Zealand. -- Missionary dioceses. -- Melanesia
606   $aMissions -- Melanesia
608   $aElectronic books.
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615  4$aChurch of the Province of New Zealand. -- Missionary dioceses. -- Melanesia.
615  4$aMissions -- Melanesia.
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