The civilising mission and the English middle class, 1792 - 1850: the "heathen" at home and overseas
The middle class and the civilising mission -- Women and missionary philanthropy -- Missions, power, and colonialism -- The heathen at home and overseas : issues of race and class -- The Bible and cultural history -- The local, the national, and the global -- One blood : the heathen at home and over...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [u.a.]
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Twells, Alison, The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas] (2012) (Power, Thomas P.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Middle class
/ Mission (international law
/ History 1792-1850
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| Further subjects: | B
Middle class
B Middle class (England) History 18th century B Great Britain B Colonialism B Middle class (England) History 19th century B Missions (England) History 18th century B History 1792-1850 B Missions, English History 18th century B Missions, English History 19th century B Mission (international law B Missions (England) History 19th century |
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| Summary: | The middle class and the civilising mission -- Women and missionary philanthropy -- Missions, power, and colonialism -- The heathen at home and overseas : issues of race and class -- The Bible and cultural history -- The local, the national, and the global -- One blood : the heathen at home and overseas in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century missions -- Like Cherokees and Mohawks, but more wicked : early Methodist missions -- Old dissent and all the world -- The missionary impulse : collaborations and conflicts -- A sort of botany bay experiment : Hannah More and the missionary solution -- Philanthropic women and the Corpus Christianum -- Charity begun at home : missionary philanthropy and the new middle class, Sheffield 1804-1823 -- Middle-class men and philanthropic networks -- The monitorial system and global civilisation -- Women, domestic reform, and the visiting system -- Women and the missionary public -- Missionary domesticity and woman's sphere : the Reads of Wincobank Hall -- Making Christian children : the Evangelical Mother's Mission -- Happy English children and the heathen other -- Missionary domesticity : Wincobank Hall -- Missionary domesticity and woman's sphere -- Missionary mothers and public men -- Bringing about the world's restoration : missionary women and the creation of a global Christian community, 1816-1832 -- Missionary women and global Christianity -- Hannah Kilham's domestic mission to Ireland and West Africa -- Wretched cabins, little palaces : domestic reform in Ireland in the 1820s -- African huts : Gambia and Sierra Leone, 1923-32 -- Trembling philanthropists missionary philanthropy under pressure in the 1830s and 1840s -- Little Black climbing boys : the early Evangelical critique of overseas missions -- A repugnant perversion of traditional Christian values : political economy, Christianity and civilisation -- Pluck out first the beam out of thine own eye : missionary priorities -- Medical men, phrenology, and the challenge of science -- Secular knowledge and the Mechanics Institute -- The wants of mankind at home : physical civilisation and domestic missions -- A Christian and civilised land : the English missionary and the South Pacific and in the 1820s to 1840s -- A moral miracle : Evangelical representations of the South Pacific -- Nothing behind our own countrymen : God's family on earth -- Missionary disappointments and anxieties of conversion -- The associations awakened by their presence : England's civilisation |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references. - Formerly CIP |
| ISBN: | 1403920400 |