Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. The birth of modern missions 3. 'Congregationalism's special mission': Missions and the making of an English middle class, 1795-1845 4. From telescopic philanthropy to social missionary imperialism: the antinomies of class and gender in missionary conceptions of race, 1845-1895 5. Pride and prejudice: the social relations of missionary philanthropy, 1867-1914 6. The strange death of missionary imperialism, 1895-1925 Notes Works cited index.