The March Journal of World History volume 27 number 3 special issue “Preaching the Civilizing Mission and Modern Cultural Encounters” features the following articles by world history scholars:
- Sartorial Settlement: The Mission Field and Transformation in Colonial Natal, 1850–1897
by T.J. Tallie - Civilization and Russification in Tsarist Central Asia, 1860–1917
by Ulrich Hofmeister - Singing the Civilizing Mission in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms: The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
by Kira Thurman - From Transformation to Negotiation: A Female Mission in a “City of Schools”
by Julia Hauser - Images of the Sporting “Civilizing Mission”: The Far Eastern Championship Games (1913–1934) and Visions of Modernizing in English-Language Philippine Newspapers
by Stefan Hübner - “Not Far from the Kingdom of God”: Shamanism and Colonial Control in Russia’s Eastern Borderlands, 1853–1917
by Jesse D. Murray - Book Reviews
Find the full text of the issue at Project MUSE
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