List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Prologue 1. Rev. Simpson’s “Improper Liberties” PART II: CONTEXTS 2. Approaches 3. Our Sea of Islands 4. The South Seas Mission PART III: INTERPRETATIONS 5. ‘The Benefit of Every Doubt’ 6. Victim-Blaming 7. Gossip, Rumour and Reputation 8. Defamation, Drunkenness and Dismissal PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 9. Concluding Reflections: History, Memory and Truth-Making Notes Bibliography Primary Sources Unpublished Published Secondary Sources Index
This micro-history critically deconstructs a case of sexual abuse in the evangelical mission community of the London Missionary Society's 19th-century Tahitian Mission.
Emily J. Manktelow is Lecturer in British Imperial History at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier (2013) and co-editor of Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World (2015).
Through solid and insightful scholarship, Manktelow’s book works on
many levels of historical enquiry, including British influence in
the South Pacific, missionary history, feminist history, and the
history of sexual assault. Manktelow also provides a wonderful
resource for teaching students to consider the archives as
depositories of institutional power.
*The Journal of Pacific History*
Both innovative and wide-ranging ... Manktelow's explicit
reflection on contemporary events for the writing of this history
is powerful and engaging ... An admirable book, notable for
Manktelow's method, poised and balanced prose, and finely crafted
and thoughtful analysis.
*Journal of British Studies*
This is a thoroughly researched and very probing discussion of
allegations of sexual abuse within the early missionary movement.
Manktelow's impressive historical excavation is informed by studies
of gender and authority to produce a creative and thought-provoking
study.
*Alison Twells, Reader in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK*
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