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With his latest book, prize-winning, popular historian Nat Brandt turns his eye to a little-known group of Midwest missionaries who gave their lives for their religious beliefs. Brandt's careful research uncovers the life, attitudes, and Christianity of the Oberlin College missionaries from the late 1880s leading up to their deaths in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion in China. The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics. Ernest Atwater, the young minister Francis Ward Davis and his wife Lydia, Charles Wesley Price and his family, and Susan Rowena Bird, to name a few, were all spurred by their strong beliefs, but they were also quite ignorant of other countries and cultures. Often having to live in disease-ravished areas of China and under harsh conditions, they were repulsed by the native lifestyle and saw further need to change it. Brandt presents finely wrought portraits of these people, detailing the lives of both the missionaries and their converts, their experiences in the interior province of Shansi, and their struggle in trying to spread Christianity among people whose language they could not speak and whose traditions and customs they did not understand. Brandt's gripping narrative brings to light a penetrating and sincere study of the "Oberlin Band" of Protestant missionaries and captures the essence of their daily life. Considered in a fair and honest context, the descriptions are often taken directly from personal correspondence and journals. This tragic story of the clash between two cultures is primarily the story of the missionaries - six men, seven women, five children. Their names appear on bronze tablets on the onlymonument in America ever erected to individuals who died in that uprising, the Memorial Arch on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Flying Danny Books, Netosu, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. A new unread and unmarked copy. Summary: Nat Brandt is a veteran journalist who began his career with CBS News as a senior newswriter, then turned to print journalism. He was a reporter on several newspapers in Connecticut and New Jersey before joining The New York Times as an editor, working primarily on the National News Desk. Subsequently, he was Managing Editor of American Heritage magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Publishers Weekly. He is a past president of the nation's oldest journalists' organization, Society of the Silurians. Nº de ref. del artículo: 000154
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Librería: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. (24)336pp. Notes. Biblio. Index. Photos. Map. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 080580
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Librería: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. No markings. 336 pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 205203
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Librería: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: DJ Fine. 1st Printing. A detailed account of the massacre of some 32,000 Chinese Christians and hundreds of Christian missionaries during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. 338pp. Size: Large Octavo. Nº de ref. del artículo: 01109191
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Librería: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Librería: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
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