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Imprints on Native Lands: The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Benjamin F. Tillman
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
More than one hundred fifty years ago, Moravian missionaries first landed along a so-called isolated stretch of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast bordering the western Caribbean Sea. The missionaries were sent, with the strong encouragement of German political leaders and in the context of German attempts at colonization, to “spread the word” of Protestantism in Central America. Upon their arrival, the missionar-ies employed a three-pronged approach consisting of proselytizing, medical treatment, and education to convert the majority of the indige-nous population. Much like the Spanish and English attempts before them, German colonizing efforts in the region never complete-ly took hold. Still, as ... Read more
More than one hundred fifty years ago, Moravian missionaries first landed along a so-called isolated stretch of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast bordering the western Caribbean Sea. The missionaries were sent, with the strong encouragement of German political leaders and in the context of German attempts at colonization, to “spread the word” of Protestantism in Central America. Upon their arrival, the missionar-ies employed a three-pronged approach consisting of proselytizing, medical treatment, and education to convert the majority of the indige-nous population. Much like the Spanish and English attempts before them, German colonizing efforts in the region never complete-ly took hold. Still, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816524549
SKU
V9780816524549
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