Subject Guides: HIST 490/646: British Missionaries in the South Pacific 1790-1900: Books

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Encyclopedia of Religion
Try searches such as: Australia and missionaries
The Encyclopedia of Missions
Call Number: Request from Concordia: BV 2040 E5 1975
The Australian Encyclopaedia
Call Number: DU 90 A93 1996
Australia: The Complete Encyclopedia
Call Number: DU 90 A97 2001 folio
The Oxford companion to Australian history
Call Number: DU 110 O93 2001
The Oxford companion to Australian folklore
Call Number: GR 365 O98 1993

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Oceania history church
Australasia mission history Empire
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Advanced search: "London Missionary Society" AND missions AND (Australasia or Oceania or "Islands of the Pacific")

Subject: church history and (Australasia or "Islands of the Pacific" or Oceania)
Subject: missions and (Melanesia or Papua or Fiji)
Subject: aboriginal and missions

Bibliographies

Bibliography of British and Irish History Online
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Recent Australian Publications
National Library of Australia: Trove
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Bibliography of British history, 1851-1914
Call Number: DA 530 Z9 H23 1976
Contains 10,829 entries in 15 chapters. Bibliographies arranged chronologically and subsequently by regions and special topics. Good coverage of the British Empire. Also includes an index.
Bibliography of British history, 1914-1989
Call Number: DA 566 Z9 R63 1996
Contains 27, 264 entries in 15 chapters. Bibliographies arranged under broad socio-economic-cultural-historical time periods. Good coverage of the British Empire and the Commonwealth. Also includes an index.
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 by Andrew Porter
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