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Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Title
- Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, T. Jack.
- Publication
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history of Christian missions
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the history of Christian missions.
- Subjects
- Missions > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 19th century
- Photography > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century
- Photography > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 19th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Church history > 20th century
- Missions > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century
- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Church history > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The beginnings of photography -- The photographer and the artist : visual representation on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition -- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" : visual representations of Stanley's expedition to "find" Livingstone -- Creating an Africa for Africans? : Scottish missions in South Africa and Malawi -- The camera and the Congo : missionary photography and Leopold's atrocities -- Missionaries and the magic lantern -- New ways of seeing : radical missionaries and critical theories.
- Call Number
- Sc E 13-277
- ISBN
- 9780802865243 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0802865240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011043011
- OCLC
- 758244239
- Author
- Thompson, T. Jack.
- Title
- Light on darkness? : missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / T. Jack Thompson.
- Imprint
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.
- Series
- Studies in the history of Christian missionsStudies in the history of Christian missions.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 13-277