Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas

Autor A. Twells
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 dec 2008
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 62379 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Palgrave Macmillan UK – 2009 62379 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 68211 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Palgrave Macmillan UK – 17 dec 2008 68211 lei  6-8 săpt.

Preț: 68211 lei

Preț vechi: 80248 lei
-15% Nou

Puncte Express: 1023

Preț estimativ în valută:
13055 13607$ 10868£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-20 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403920409
ISBN-10: 1403920400
Pagini: 353
Ilustrații: XIV, 353 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:2009
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography

Recenzii

"[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

Notă biografică

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).