The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction: The Missionary Movement, the Local and the Global......Page 16
The middle class and the civilising mission......Page 19
Women and missionary philanthropy......Page 22
Missions, power and colonialism......Page 25
The \'heathen\' at home and overseas: issues of race and class......Page 27
The Bible and cultural history......Page 31
The local, the national and the global......Page 35
1 \'One Blood\': The \'Heathen\' at Home and Overseas in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth-Century Missions......Page 40
‘Like Cherokees and Mohawks, but more wicked’: early Methodist missions......Page 42
Old Dissent and \'all the world\'......Page 45
The missionary impulse: collaborations and conflicts......Page 49
‘A sort of Botany Bay experiment’: Hannah More and the missionary solution......Page 52
Philanthropic women and the Corpus Christianum......Page 58
Conclusion......Page 65
2 Charity Begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class in Sheffield......Page 67
Middle-class men and philanthropic networks......Page 69
The monitorial system and global civilisation......Page 79
Women, domestic reform and the visiting system......Page 84
Women and the missionary public......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 96
3 Missionary Domesticity and \'Woman\'s Sphere\': The Reads of Wincobank Hall......Page 98
Making Christian children: the evangelical mother\'s mission......Page 101
Happy English children and the \'heathen other\'......Page 104
Missionary domesticity: Wincobank Hall......Page 114
Missionary domesticity and woman\'s sphere......Page 118
Missionary mothers and public men......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 127
4 \'Bringing about the World\'s Restoration\': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community......Page 130
Missionary women and global Christianity......Page 133
Hannah Kilham\'s domestic mission......Page 138
Wretched cabins, little palaces: domestic reform in Ireland......Page 142
African huts: Gambia and Sierra Leone, 1823–1832......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 157
5 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure......Page 159
Little black climbing boys: the early evangelical critique of overseas missions......Page 161
A \'repugnant perversion of traditional Christian values\': political economy, Christianity and civilisation......Page 169
‘Pluck out first the beam out of thine own eye’: missionary priorities......Page 171
Medical men, phrenology and the challenge of science......Page 176
Secular knowledge and the Mechanics\' Institute......Page 180
The \'wants of mankind at home\': \'physical civilisation\' and domestic missions......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 190
6 \'A Christian and Civilized Land\': The English Missionary Public and the South Pacific......Page 193
‘A moral miracle’: evangelical representations of the South Pacific......Page 195
‘Nothing behind our own countrymen’: God\'s family on earth......Page 207
Missionary disappointments and anxieties of conversion......Page 213
‘The associations awakened by their presence’: England\'s civilisation......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 224
Conclusions......Page 226
Notes......Page 235
Bibliography......Page 307
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