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Table of Contents

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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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
266/.02342
Library of Congress
BV2863 .T94 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18687605M
Internet Archive
civilisingmissio00twel
ISBN 10
1403920400
ISBN 13
9781403920409
LCCN
2008030096
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1277346

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