This Week's Acquisitions
- Cyrus Francis Perkins, Busha's Mistress; or Catherine the Fugitive. A Stirring Romance of the Days of Slavery in Jamaica (Markus Wiener, 2003). First scholarly edition of Perkins' anti-slavery novel, finished in the 1850s but not published until the early twentieth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed (Hogarth, 2016). A reworking of The Tempest, featuring a ruined theater director in the Prospero role. (Lift Bridge)
- Abigail Williams, The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (Yale, 2017). Examines how families read, what they read, who could read, etc. (Amazon)
- Jean and John Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa (Chicago, 1991). Analyzes the effects of British missionary contacts with the Southern Tswana during the nineteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Amanda Porterfield, Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Oxford, 1997). Studies the history of antebellum women's missionary work via the work of Mary Lyon and her students. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Tony Ballantyne, Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body (Duke, 2014). Examines the work of missionaries in New Zealand by focusing specifically on their attempts to intervene in the material practices of the Māori. (Amazon [secondhand])