Karen Vallgårda is Assistant Professor of History at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Vallgarda's book is immensely impressive. It is distinguished by wide and close reading and by innovative methodology. In critical and convincing ways it complicates missionary interventions and the missionary experience." - Reviews in History

• Introduction 1. Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions 2. Controversy and Collapse: On Christian Day Schools 3. Raising Two Categories of Children 4. Tying Children to God with Love 5. Science, Morality, Care, and Control 6. Emotional Labor of Loss 7. Planting Seeds in Young Hearts Epilogue: The Productive Figure of the Universal Child Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Overview over Mission Stations