Author: Hugh Morrison
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526156776
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
Author: Hugh Morrison
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004503080
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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At Christmas 1936, Presbyterian children in New Zealand raised over £400 for an x-ray machine in a south Chinese missionary hospital. From the early 1800s, thousands of children in the British world had engaged in similar activities, raising significant amounts of money to support missionary projects world-wide. But was money the most important thing? Hugh Morrison argues that children’s education was a more important motive and outcome. This is the first book-length attempt to bring together evidence from across a range of British contexts. In particular it focuses on children’s literature, the impact of imperialism and nationalism, and the role of emotions.
Author: Felicity Jensz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526174437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It clearly It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalent legacy of mission schools.
Author: Christopher Prior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719099298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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For Africans, rank and file colonial officials - the "men on the spot" - were the most visible manifestation of Britain's imperial presence on their continent. For Britons, over time officials came to be celebrated as exemplars of a noble commitment to altruistic overseas duty. But in spite oftheir importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the "Scramble for Africa" and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes, have yet to be examined in any systematic manner. A great deal of research has beenundertaken on the impact of empire upon British society; what is needed is an assessment of the extent to which any metropolitan ideas about empire were subsequently exported out to Africa via colonial administrators.In this original and revisionist work, Prior draws upon an enormous array of private and official papers to address some key questions about the colonial services. How did officials' education and training affect the ways that they engaged with Africa? How did officials relate to one another? Howdid officials seek to understand Africa and Africans? How did they respond to infrastructural change? How did they deal with anti-colonial nationalism?Besides providing a focused assessment of colonial officials' intellectual worldviews, Prior assesses the value of some of the latest theories of empire in furthering our understanding of colonial Africa, meaning this work will be of importance to students and lecturers alike interested in British,imperial and African history.
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Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 0878086080
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Author: Edward M. Spiers
Publisher: Studies in Imperialism
ISBN: 9780719086151
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of the railway age' to the outbreak of the First World War.
Author: Benjamin Steiner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526143259
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different ‘glocal’ styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation. Building the French empire gives a view of the French overseas empire in the early modern period not as a consequence or an outgrowth of Eurocentric state-building, but rather as the result of a globally interconnected process of empire-building.
Author: Sabine Clarke
Publisher: Studies in Imperialism
ISBN: 9781526131386
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain's remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. Science at the end of empire explores the practical and also political functions of scientific research and economic advisors for Britain at a moment in which Caribbean governments operated with increasing autonomy and the US was intent on expanding its influence in the region. Britain's preferred path to industrial development was threatened by an alternative promoted through the Caribbean Commission. The provision of knowledge and expertise became key routes by which Britain and America competed to shape the future of the region, and their place in it.
Author: Annie E. Coombes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719071683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Focusing on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, this book investigates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologized, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century through monuments, exhibitions and images.
Author: Indrani Sen
Publisher: Studies in Imperialism
ISBN: 9781526143488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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"This book seeks to capture the complex experience of the white woman in colonial India through an exploration of gendered interactions over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines missionary and memsahibs' colonial writings, both literary and non-literary, probing their construction of Indian women of different classes and regions, such as zenana women, peasants, ayahs and wet-nurses. Also examined are delineations of European female health issues in male authored colonial medical handbooks, which underline the misogyny undergirding this discourse. Giving voice to the Indian woman, this book also scrutinises the fiction of the first generation of western-educated Indian women who wrote in English, exploring their construction of white women and their negotiations with colonial modernities. This fascinating book will be of interest to the general reader and to experts and students of gender studies, colonial history, literary and cultural studies as well as the social history of health and medicine."--
