Colonization and Christianity
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholarly readers specializing in colonial history and imperialism
- Readers interested in the history of Christian missions and religious ethics
- Those interested in nineteenth-century British intellectual debates
- Readers who wish to approach postcolonial criticism through primary documents
Not a good fit for
- Beginning readers expecting a neutral, objective general history
- Those seeking only a basic factual overview of colonial history
- Readers impatient with argumentative English prose and long sentences
Reading tips
- Read the introduction and conclusion first to grasp the author's core arguments and stance, then move into the illustrative chapters.
- Note the sources the author uses as you go, distinguishing factual statements from moral evaluations.
- Read alongside a modern work of colonial history to test the selections and omissions in its argument.
- Annotate key passages, marking expressions that reflect the prejudices of the era.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
William Howitt (1792–1879) was an English writer whose biographical details are limited in publicly available sources; five of his works are held in this collection. Judging from these works, his subjects were wide-ranging: The Student-Life of Germany examines foreign customs and youth culture, while the two-volume Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets links literary memory by visiting the places where poets lived, blending biography with travel writing. He also published the story collection Luke Barnicott, and Other Stories and Colonization and Christianity, which touches on the relationship between colonial expansion and religious ethics. Howitt's writing tends toward reportage and the essay, with attention to local scenery and the details of daily life, offering some value for understanding the literary geography and intellectual climate of nineteenth-century Britain.
