The civilising mission and the English middle class, 1792-1850
Subtitle: the "heathen" at home and overseas
By: Alison Twells.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781403920409
Subjects: Missions -- England -- History -- 18th century; Missions -- England -- History -- 19th century; Missions, English -- History -- 18th century; Missions, English -- History -- 19th century; Middle class -- England -- History -- 18th century; Middle class -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Church history -- 18th century; England -- Church history -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The middle class and the civilising mission; title: Women and missionary philanthropy; title: Missions, power, and colonialism; title: The heathen at home and overseas : issues of race and class; title: The Bible and cultural history; title: The local, the national, and the global; title: One blood : the heathen at home and overseas in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century missions; title: Like Cherokees and Mohawks, but more wicked : early Methodist missions; title: Old dissent and all the world; title: The missionary impulse : collaborations and conflicts; title: A sort of botany bay experiment : Hannah More and the missionary solution; title: Philanthropic women and the Corpus Christianum; title: Charity begun at home : missionary philanthropy and the new middle class, Sheffield 1804-1823; title: Middle-class men and philanthropic networks; title: The monitorial system and global civilisation; title: Women, domestic reform, and the visiting system; title: Women and the missionary public; title: Missionary domesticity and woman's sphere : the Reads of Wincobank Hall; title: Making Christian children : the Evangelical Mother's Mission; title: Happy English children and the heathen other; title: Missionary domesticity : Wincobank Hall; title: Missionary domesticity and woman's sphere; title: Missionary mothers and public men; title: Bringing about the world's restoration : missionary women and the creation of a global Christian community, 1816-1832; title: Missionary women and global Christianity; title: Hannah Kilham's domestic mission to Ireland and West Africa; title: Wretched cabins, little palaces : domestic reform in Ireland in the 1820s; title: African huts : Gambia and Sierra Leone, 1923-32; title: Trembling philanthropists missionary philanthropy under pressure in the 1830s and 1840s; title: Little Black climbing boys : the early Evangelical critique of overseas missions; title: A repugnant perversion of traditional Christian values : political economy, Christianity and civilisation; title: Pluck out first the beam out of thine own eye : missionary priorities; title: Medical men, phrenology, and the challenge of science; title: Secular knowledge and the Mechanics Institute; title: The wants of mankind at home : physical civilisation and domestic missions; title: A Christian and civilised land : the English missionary and the South Pacific and in the 1820s to 1840s; title: A moral miracle : Evangelical representations of the South Pacific; title: Nothing behind our own countrymen : God's family on earth; title: Missionary disappointments and anxieties of conversion; title: The associations awakened by their presence : England's civilisation.