Empire and Scottish Society : : The Impact of Foreign Missions at Home, c. 1790 to c. 1914 /

Empire and Scottish Society : : The Impact of Foreign Missions at Home, c. 1790 to c. 1914 / / Esther Breitenbach.

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This book examines how participation in the British Empire shaped constructions of Scottish national identity. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of 19th-century and early 20th-century Scottish society through its original use of a wide range of primary sources, and covers new g...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Breitenbach, Esther,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Place Names and Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Empire and National Identity
  • 3 Empire and Civil Society Organisations
  • 4 Enlightening the Heathen in Religious Truth: the Scottish Missionary Movement
  • 5 ‘Missionary Intelligence’ and the Construction of Identities: Religion, Race, Gender and Class
  • 6 Remembering and Reproducing Scotland: the Construction of National Identity
  • 7 From ‘Maniacs’ to the ‘Best of its Manhood’: the Appropriation of the Missionary as Scottish Empire Builder
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Appendix I Missionary Periodicals
  • Appendix II Missionaries’ Biographical Details
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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