Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. '[This book] stands out for the sensitivity of analysis, rich foundation of primary sources, deep engagement with academic scholarship in an impressive range …
Dr. David Livingstone, the Victorian 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more written commentary than nearly any other heroic figure of the nineteenth century. In the years following his death, as numerous biographers took up the pen, he rapidly became the subject of a major bi…
Dr. David Livingstone, the Victorian 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more written commentary than nearly any other heroic figure of the nineteenth century. In the years following his death, as numerous biographers took up the pen, he rapidly became the subject of a major bi…
This study interrogates the heterogeneous nature of Livingstone's legacy and explores the plurality of identities that he has posthumously acquired. Investigating Livingstone's own self-staging, his Victorian commemoration, his imperialist and Scottish reputations, and his after…
David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. David Livingstone: Mission and Empire is a scholarly and readable account of the life and achievements of one of the greatest Victorians.
David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire whose reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. This book is an account of Livingstone's life and his achievements.
David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely t…
"Nunca hubiera imaginado el joven médico escocés David Livingstone cuando en 1840 se embarcó hacia África del Sur para enseñar el evangelio en aquellas colonias, que se iba a convertir en uno de los exploradores más admirados de nuestra civilización. Sus diecisiete primeros años…
To go where no missionary had ever been, to smell the smoke of unknown villages, to witness to people beyond the vast Kalahari - such were the dreams of David Livingstone.
