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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 3 B/W tablesContent type:
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  • 9780748636204
  • 9780748636211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6660941109034 22
LOC classification:
  • DA16 .B672 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 ground in its assessment of the impact of empire at home.Esther Breitenbach shows how, in the course of the 19th century, Scots acquired a knowledge of empire and voiced opinions on imperial administration and on imperialism itself through philanthropic and religious, learned and scientific, and imperial propagandist activities. She explores the role that the foreign mission movement of the leading Presbyterian churches played in creating a vision of empire. And, focusing on Edinburgh as a case study, she discusses the social basis of support for the movement, including the increasingly prominent role played by women.Through analysing writings by and about missionaries in the missionary and secular press, Empire and Scottish Society asks how the foreign mission movement came to be a source of national pride, and provides new insights into the shaping of Scottish national identity and its relationship to the concept of Britishness.
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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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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 ground in its assessment of the impact of empire at home.Esther Breitenbach shows how, in the course of the 19th century, Scots acquired a knowledge of empire and voiced opinions on imperial administration and on imperialism itself through philanthropic and religious, learned and scientific, and imperial propagandist activities. She explores the role that the foreign mission movement of the leading Presbyterian churches played in creating a vision of empire. And, focusing on Edinburgh as a case study, she discusses the social basis of support for the movement, including the increasingly prominent role played by women.Through analysing writings by and about missionaries in the missionary and secular press, Empire and Scottish Society asks how the foreign mission movement came to be a source of national pride, and provides new insights into the shaping of Scottish national identity and its relationship to the concept of Britishness.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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