This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
ALISON TWELLS is Principal Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published articles on Nineteenth-century gender history and missionary culture, and is the author of British Women's History: A Documentary History from the Enlightenment to World War 1 (IB Tauris, 2007).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography
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"[Twells] has contributed to a significant area of scholarship with this fine study that substantially extends our knowledge of the complex interrelated issues of the English metropole and imperial periphery. She has moved the debate in fruitful directions with a fresh and compelling narrative." - Patricia Grimshaw, University of Melbourne
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