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Brett Christophers, Positioning the Missionary: John Booth Good and the Confluence of Cultures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxi + 200 pp.).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

Rita Smith Kipp
Affiliation:
Kenyon College
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Brett Christophers puts post-colonial and feminist theories and Foucault's writings to intelligent use in this carefully documented account of an Anglican mission. The author, a geographer, evinces a special concern with space and human placement on the land, but his methods here are historical. Christophers gives a fair and textured depiction of a missionary whom his contemporaries regarded as exemplary, but whose success was hampered both by logistical and political forces outside his control. Scholars whose focus is missionaries, as well as those interested in Canada's past, including that of its so-called First Nations, will appreciate this balanced blend of theory and history.

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© 2001 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History