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Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission. The archives of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read alongside primary sources produced by the British Protestant Church Missionary Society to analyse their impact between 1900 and 1972 in Rwanda and Burundi. The colonial state was weaker than often assumed, and permeable by external radical influences. Denominational competition between Catholic and Protestant missionaries was a key motor of this radicalism. The colonial state in both kingdoms was a weak, reactive agent rather than a structuring form of power. This volume shows that missionaries were more committed and influential actors, but their inability to manage the mass demand for the education that they sought and delivered finally undermined the achievement of their aims. Missionaries and the Colonial State is a resource for historians of Christianity, Belgian Africa specialists, and scholars of colonialism.

New York, 1983. Als Peter Manyweathers in einer Bibliothek einen alten Brief entdeckt, weiß er noch nicht, dass er gerade das größte Abenteuer seines Lebens in den Händen hält. Sechs seltene Blumen sind in dem geheimnisvollen Brief notiert. Sechs Blumen, die so unvergleichlich sind, dass Peter Manyweathers für sie um die ganze Welt reisen wird. Peter Manyweathers hat weder ausgefallene Hobbys noch abenteuerliche Phantasien. Doch dann fällt ihm zwischen den Seiten einer Enzyklopädie ein alter Brief mit den seltensten Blumen der Erde in die Hände, und mit einem Mal erwacht sein Entdeckergeist. Stück für Stück taucht er ab in die sonderbare Welt der Blumen, und als sich die Nachricht verbreitet, dass die geheimnisvolle Udumbara in voller Blüte in China entdeckt wurde, begibt er sich auf eine Reise, die ihn rund um den Kontinent führen wird. Drei Jahrzehnte später wandelt Dove Gale fasziniert auf den Spuren des Blumensammlers. Es sind Erinnerungsfetzen, die dem jungen Mann aus dem Leben von Peter Manyweathers erzählen. Doch weshalb besitzt Dove die Erinnerungen eines anderen und was verbindet die beiden Männer? David Whitehouse ist ein spektakulärer Roman über Liebe und Verlust sowie die ungezähmte Macht der Erinnerung gelungen.'Außergewöhnlich klug, um nicht zu sagen, genial. Keine Frage, David Whitehouse ist ein Schriftsteller, den man im Blick haben muss.'New York Times'Kraftvoll und exzentrisch: Whitehouses Schreibstil steckt voller Energie und Temperament, gespickt mit überraschenden, zärtlichen Momenten.'The Times

Bobby Nusku fristet seine Tage damit, Haare, Kleidungsstücke und weitere Spuren seiner verschwundenen Mutter zu sammeln und zu archivieren. Er fühlt sich im Haus seines grobschlächtigen Vaters und dessen wasserstoffblonder Freundin ziemlich einsam, besonders nachdem sein einziger Freund Sunny eines Tages wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Die Freundschaft zum Nachbarsmädchen Rosa und ihrer Mutter Val, die Putzfrau in einem Bücherbus ist, gibt ihm Hoffnung und macht ihm Mut, sich gegen sein Schicksal aufzulehnen. Als alles drunter und drüber geht, machen sich Val, Rosa und Bobby gemeinsam mit dem sympathischen Outlaw Joe auf eine verrückte Reise mit Vals Bücherbus quer durch England. Im Gepäck haben sie nur das Nötigste: ihre Freundschaft und eine Menge guter Bücher.

From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as “a writer to watch,” a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.“An archivist of his mother,” Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend Sunny hatch a plan to transform Sunny, limb-by-limb, into a cyborg who could keep Bobby safe from schoolyard torment and from Bobby's abusive father and his bleach-blonde girlfriend. When Sunny is injured in a freak accident, Bobby is forced to face the world alone. Out in the neighborhood, Bobby encounters Rosa, a peculiar girl whose disability invites the scorn of bullies. When Bobby takes Rosa home, he meets her mother, Val, a lonely divorcee, whose job is cleaning a mobile library. Bobby and Val come to fill the emotional void in each other's lives, but their bond also draws unwanted attention. After Val loses her job and Bobby is beaten by his father, they abscond in the sixteen-wheel bookmobile. On the road they are joined by Joe, a mysterious but kindhearted ex-soldier. This “puzzle of people” will travel across England, a picaresque adventure that comes to rival those in the classic books that fill their library-on-wheels. At once tender, provocative and darkly funny, Mobile Library is a fable about the intrinsic human desire to be loved and understood—and about one boy's realization that the kinds of adventures found in books can happen in real life. It is the ingenious second novel by a writer whose prose has been hailed as “outlandishly clever” (The New York Times) and “deceptively effortless” (The Boston Globe).