Empire and Scottish society : the impact of foreign missions at home, c.1790 to c.1914 /
Breitenbach, Esther.
Empire and Scottish society : the impact of foreign missions at home, c.1790 to c.1914 / Esther Breitenbach. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (218 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON PLACE NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Notes -- 2 EMPIRE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 8216;BRITISH8217; IDENTITY -- CHANGE AND VARIATION IN NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RELIGION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 3 EMPIRE AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS -- RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CONCERNS: PHILANTHROPY AND EMPIRE -- IMPERIALIST ENTHUSIASM AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- The Royal Scottish Geographical Society -- Imperialist propaganda organisations -- International exhibitions -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 4 ENLIGHTENING THE HEATHEN IN RELIGIOUS TRUTH: THE SCOTTISH MISSIONARY MOVEMENT -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS -- ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS -- FUND-RAISING -- EMPLOYMENT OF MISSIONARY AGENTS, TRAINING AND HOME MISSION WORK -- DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION -- THE COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP -- THE SOCIAL BASIS OF SUPPORT FOR THE FOREIGN MISSION MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 5 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES: RELIGION, RACE, GENDER AND CLASS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISSEMINATION OF 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; -- RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: IDEALS, PRACTICE AND THE RELIGIONS OF OTHERS -- DISCOURSES OF RACE AND THE CIVILISING MISSION -- DISCOURSES OF GENDER -- DISCOURSES OF CLASS: PROFESSIONAL STATUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 6 REMEMBERING AND REPRODUCING SCOTLAND: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RECALLING THE HOMELAND -- SYMBOLIC REPRODUCTION OF THE HOMELAND: NAMING AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES -- THE HOMELAND AS A MODEL: INSTITUTIONAL FORMS AND PRACTICES -- CREATION OF A SCOTTISH MISSIONARY TRADITION AND CLAIMS OF LEADERSHIP -- 8216;NATIONAL8217; NAMES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 7 FROM 8216;MANIACS8217; TO THE 8216;BEST OF ITS MANHOOD8217;: THE APPROPRIATION OF THE MISSIONARY AS SCOTTISH EMPIRE BUILDER -- THE CIVILISING MISSION -- MISSIONARIES AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION -- SCOTS8217; ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 8 CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Appendix I MISSIONARY PERIODICALS -- Appendix II MISSIONARIES8217; BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscript: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland (NLS) -- CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS -- Missionary periodicals -- Other periodicals -- Articles from periodicals -- Annual reports and General Assembly proceedings -- Pamphlets -- Histories of missions and missionary societies -- Contemporary biographies and memoirs of missionaries -- Other contemporary books -- NEWSPAPERS -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Books -- Chapters in books -- Articles in journals -- Unpublished theses -- INDEX.
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.
9780748636211 (electronic bk.) 0748636218 (electronic bk.) 1282703021 9781282703025 (hbk.) (hbk.)
22573/cttk0m6x JSTOR
GBC124126 bnb
020078073 Uk
Commonwealth
1800-1899
Geschichte 1790-1914
Missions, Scottish--Influence.
Missions, Scottish--Public opinion.
Imperialism--Social aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Nationalism--Political aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Sex role--Social aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Missions écossaises--Influence.
Missions écossaises--Opinion publique.
Impérialisme--Aspect social--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
Nationalisme--Aspect politique--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe--Aspect social--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Imperialism--Social aspects.
Nationalism--Political aspects.
Public opinion.
Sex role--Social aspects.
Nationalbewusstsein
Gesellschaft
Mission
Scotland--Public opinion.
Écosse--Opinion publique.
Scotland.
Schottland
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
DA16 / .B672 2009eb
306.6660941109034
Empire and Scottish society : the impact of foreign missions at home, c.1790 to c.1914 / Esther Breitenbach. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (218 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON PLACE NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Notes -- 2 EMPIRE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 8216;BRITISH8217; IDENTITY -- CHANGE AND VARIATION IN NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RELIGION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 3 EMPIRE AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS -- RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CONCERNS: PHILANTHROPY AND EMPIRE -- IMPERIALIST ENTHUSIASM AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- The Royal Scottish Geographical Society -- Imperialist propaganda organisations -- International exhibitions -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 4 ENLIGHTENING THE HEATHEN IN RELIGIOUS TRUTH: THE SCOTTISH MISSIONARY MOVEMENT -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS -- ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS -- FUND-RAISING -- EMPLOYMENT OF MISSIONARY AGENTS, TRAINING AND HOME MISSION WORK -- DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION -- THE COMPOSITION OF COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP -- THE SOCIAL BASIS OF SUPPORT FOR THE FOREIGN MISSION MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 5 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES: RELIGION, RACE, GENDER AND CLASS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISSEMINATION OF 8216;MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE8217; -- RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: IDEALS, PRACTICE AND THE RELIGIONS OF OTHERS -- DISCOURSES OF RACE AND THE CIVILISING MISSION -- DISCOURSES OF GENDER -- DISCOURSES OF CLASS: PROFESSIONAL STATUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 6 REMEMBERING AND REPRODUCING SCOTLAND: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- RECALLING THE HOMELAND -- SYMBOLIC REPRODUCTION OF THE HOMELAND: NAMING AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES -- THE HOMELAND AS A MODEL: INSTITUTIONAL FORMS AND PRACTICES -- CREATION OF A SCOTTISH MISSIONARY TRADITION AND CLAIMS OF LEADERSHIP -- 8216;NATIONAL8217; NAMES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 7 FROM 8216;MANIACS8217; TO THE 8216;BEST OF ITS MANHOOD8217;: THE APPROPRIATION OF THE MISSIONARY AS SCOTTISH EMPIRE BUILDER -- THE CIVILISING MISSION -- MISSIONARIES AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION -- SCOTS8217; ACHIEVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- 8 CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Appendix I MISSIONARY PERIODICALS -- Appendix II MISSIONARIES8217; BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscript: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland (NLS) -- CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS -- Missionary periodicals -- Other periodicals -- Articles from periodicals -- Annual reports and General Assembly proceedings -- Pamphlets -- Histories of missions and missionary societies -- Contemporary biographies and memoirs of missionaries -- Other contemporary books -- NEWSPAPERS -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Books -- Chapters in books -- Articles in journals -- Unpublished theses -- INDEX.
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.
9780748636211 (electronic bk.) 0748636218 (electronic bk.) 1282703021 9781282703025 (hbk.) (hbk.)
22573/cttk0m6x JSTOR
GBC124126 bnb
020078073 Uk
Commonwealth
1800-1899
Geschichte 1790-1914
Missions, Scottish--Influence.
Missions, Scottish--Public opinion.
Imperialism--Social aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Nationalism--Political aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Sex role--Social aspects--History--Scotland--19th century.
Missions écossaises--Influence.
Missions écossaises--Opinion publique.
Impérialisme--Aspect social--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
Nationalisme--Aspect politique--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe--Aspect social--Histoire--Écosse--19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology of Religion.
HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain.
Imperialism--Social aspects.
Nationalism--Political aspects.
Public opinion.
Sex role--Social aspects.
Nationalbewusstsein
Gesellschaft
Mission
Scotland--Public opinion.
Écosse--Opinion publique.
Scotland.
Schottland
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
DA16 / .B672 2009eb
306.6660941109034