LEADER 03852oam 2200589I 450 001 9910963032203321 005 20251117070101.0 010 $a1-317-02871-6 010 $a1-317-02872-4 010 $a1-315-55713-4 010 $a1-283-12884-5 010 $a9786613128843 010 $a1-4094-1721-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315557137 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093772 035 $a(OCoLC)732959056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10470876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2004614 035 $a(OCoLC)992401577 035 $a(BIP)75761067 035 $a(BIP)32244335 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093772 100 $a20180706e20161961 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, written by John Davies, missionary to the South Sea Islands $ewith supplementary papers of the missionaries /$fedited by C.W. Newbury 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (467 p.) 225 1 $aWorks issued by the Hakluyt Society ;$v2d ser., no. 116 300 $aFirst published by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a1-4094-1482-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographcial references (pages xv-xxv) and index. 327 $aInstructions from the directors to Captain William Wilson, Commander of the Royal Admiral, 1800 -- Instructions from the directors to the missionaries, 1800 -- The history of the Tahitian mission, 1799-1830 -- Epilogue. 330 $aIn the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961. 410 0$aWorks issued by the Hakluyt Society ;$v2d ser., no. 116. 606 $aRELIGION$2bisac 606 $aChristian Ministry / Missions$2bisac 615 7$aRELIGION 615 7$aChristian Ministry / Missions 676 $a266.2962 700 $aDavies$b John$f1772-1855.,$0847230 701 $aNewbury$b C. W$g(Colin Walter),$f1929-$0173283 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963032203321 996 $aThe history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, written by John Davies, missionary to the South Sea Islands$94473405 997 $aUNINA