Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth-century England /

"This book explores the missionary movement's influence on popular perceptions of empire and race in nineteenth-century England. The foreign missionary endeavor was one of the most influential of the channels through which nineteenth-century Britons encountered the colonies, and because of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorne, Susan, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Congregational churches > England > History > 19th century.
Congregational churches > Missions > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Églises congrégationalistes > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Églises congrégationalistes > Missions > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Impérialisme > Histoire > 19e siècle.
11.55 Protestantism.
Congregational churches
Congregational churches > Missions
Imperialism
Zending.
Congregationalisme.
Imperialisme.
England
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of modern missions
  • "Congregationalism's special mission": missions and the making of an English middle class, 1795-1845
  • From telescopic philanthropy to social missionary imperialism: the antinomies of class and gender in missionary conceptions of race, 1845-1895
  • Pride and prejudice: the social relations of missionary philanthropy, 1867-1914
  • The strange death of missionary imperialism, 1895-1925.

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