ISBN:
9780748636211
,
0748636218
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (218 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Empire and Scottish society
DDC:
306.6660941109034
Keywords:
Commonwealth
;
Missions, Scottish Influence
;
Missions, Scottish Public opinion
;
Imperialism Social aspects
;
History
;
19th century
;
Scotland
;
Nationalism Political aspects
;
History
;
19th century
;
Scotland
;
Sex role Social aspects
;
History
;
19th century
;
Scotland
;
Imperialism Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Nationalism Political aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Sex role Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Missions, Scottish Influence
;
Missions, Scottish Public opinion
;
Sex role Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Missions, Scottish Influence
;
Nationalism Political aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Missions, Scottish Public opinion
;
Imperialism Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Imperialism ; Social aspects
;
Nationalism ; Political aspects
;
Public opinion
;
Sex role ; Social aspects
;
Nationalbewusstsein
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Gesellschaft
;
Mission
;
HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
;
History
;
Scotland Public opinion
;
Schottland
;
Scotland Public opinion
;
Scotland Public opinion
;
Schottland
;
Scotland
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book considers the mediation of empire by the foreign mission movement. It gives depth and substance to general claims that empire permeated the lives of Scots in the 19th century and that Scots articulated a strong sense of national identity in the context of the empire
Description / Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTE ON PLACE NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Notes -- 2 EMPIRE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 8216;BRITISH8217; IDENTITY -- CHANGE AND VARIATION IN NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RELIGION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 3 EMPIRE AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS -- RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CONCERNS: PHILANTHROPY AND EMPIRE -- IMPERIALIST ENTHUSIASM AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- The Royal Scottish Geographical Society -- Imperialist propaganda organisations -- International exhibitions -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 4 ENLIGHTENING THE HEATHEN IN RELIGIOUS TRUTH: THE SCOTTISH MISSIONARY MOVEMENT -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS -- ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS -- FUND-RAISING -- EMPLOYMENT OF MISSIONARY AGENTS, TRAINING AND HOME MISSION WORK -- DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION -- THE COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP -- THE SOCIAL BASIS OF SUPPORT FOR THE FOREIGN MISSION MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 5 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES: RELIGION, RACE, GENDER AND CLASS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISSEMINATION OF 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; -- RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: IDEALS, PRACTICE AND THE RELIGIONS OF OTHERS -- DISCOURSES OF RACE AND THE CIVILISING MISSION -- DISCOURSES OF GENDER -- DISCOURSES OF CLASS: PROFESSIONAL STATUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 6 REMEMBERING AND REPRODUCING SCOTLAND: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RECALLING THE HOMELAND -- SYMBOLIC REPRODUCTION OF THE HOMELAND: NAMING AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES -- THE HOMELAND AS A MODEL: INSTITUTIONAL FORMS AND PRACTICES -- CREATION OF A SCOTTISH MISSIONARY TRADITION AND CLAIMS OF LEADERSHIP -- 8216;NATIONAL8217; NAMES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 7 FROM 8216;MANIACS8217; TO THE 8216;BEST OF ITS MANHOOD8217;: THE APPROPRIATION OF THE MISSIONARY AS SCOTTISH EMPIRE BUILDER -- THE CIVILISING MISSION -- MISSIONARIES AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION -- SCOTS8217; ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 8 CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Appendix I MISSIONARY PERIODICALS -- Appendix II MISSIONARIES8217; BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscript: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland (NLS) -- CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS -- Missionary periodicals -- Other periodicals -- Articles from periodicals -- Annual reports and General Assembly proceedings -- Pamphlets -- Histories of missions and missionary societies -- Contemporary biographies and memoirs of missionaries -- Other contemporary books -- NEWSPAPERS -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Books -- Chapters in books -- Articles in journals -- Unpublished theses -- INDEX.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748636211
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748636211
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748636204.001.0001
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