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A Mission Too Far...Pacific Commitment - Pacific Commitment (Paperback)
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A Mission Too Far...Pacific Commitment - Pacific Commitment (Paperback)
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A good historian, it has been said, is a prophet in reverse. The
perceptive historian has the ability to look back at the past,
identify issues overlooked by others, all the while stimulating the
reader to search for the implications in the present of what has
been discovered. Jan Snijders is such a prophet in reverse. He
brings his shrewd intuitions and scholarly reflections to the
material of this book as no previous writer on Colins leadership in
18351841 has so far been able to achieve. This is a landmark book
for historians, but more than that as well. It is the first
in-depth scholarly publication on Father Jean-Claude Colin as the
French founder of the Marist Missions in the South Pacific. It is
an enthralling read for anyone who wonders how French countrymen
coped when trying to open a Catholic mission in the New Zealand and
in the Polynesian Islands of the 1830s and 1840s. And anyone
interested in cross-cultural processes will get a very close look
at the culture contacts between French Catholics, Polynesian people
and British settlers, all pursuing their own objectives.
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