| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Elizabeth Elbourne. Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions, and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799–1853. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two, number 19.) Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 499. $75.00.

Christian missions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries continue to enjoy a resurgence of interest from scholars in many disciplines. Unlike postcolonial theorists, who emphasize tight linkages among missions, empire, and modernity, Elizabeth Elbourne has the historian's eye for particularity, diversity, personalities, and change over time. Elbourne challenges anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff on their own ground with a detailed examination of London Missionary Society (LMS) operations in South Africa. It might be argued that enough attention has already been paid to the LMS, whose South African staff was small and whose converts were few in comparison to other missionary societies that worked in the populous eastern regions. The LMS mission to the Khoe, which is the principal subject of Elbourne's study, numbered no more than a few thousand souls; the southern Tswana missions that the Comaroffs studied were similar in size. In the long run, these would be dwarfed by the growth of Christianity among the millions of Xhosa, Sotho, and Zulu peoples.

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