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The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850

The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas

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  • © 2009

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  1. Alison Twells

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The Missionary Movement, the Local and the Global

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 1-24

  3. ‘One Blood’: The ‘Heathen’ at Home and Overseas in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth-Century Missions

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 25-51

  4. Charity Begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class in Sheffield

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 52-82

  5. Missionary Domesticity and ‘Woman’s Sphere’: The Reads of Wincobank Hall

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 83-114

  6. ‘Bringing about the World’s Restoration’: Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 115-143

  7. Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 144-177

  8. ‘A Christian and Civilized Land’: The English Missionary Public and the South Pacific

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 178-210

  9. Conclusions

    • Alison Twells
    Pages 211-219

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 220-353
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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.

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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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  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    Alison Twells

About the author

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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